Suggestions for JPG Software for Personal Cloud

[rk911]

for the last several years I have been diligently scanning and organizing old family photos from both my wife's and my family. they are currently residing in Picasa3 on my local hard drive. i'd like to copy some of these photos to my Western Digital personal cloud drive to make them available to the rest of our family members.

I thought about simply moving the Picasa install from my local hard drive to the cloud drive but I don't think Picasa will allow me to assign different rights to different folders. I don't want to share all of our photos, just some of them. I also don't want to pay for DropBox storage...I have a ton of photos.

Looking for suggestions as to which software to use on the cloud drive in that would facilitate sharing these photos. the idea is that a family member could browse the photos and download the image to their PC.

[Dutch_12078]

rk911 wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:
Have you looked at Picasa Web Albums? Google gives you 15GB free, and the web albums will integrate nicely with your local Picasa installation for updating and synchronizing. You can set access by the album or even the individual photos, private, link only, or public.

I was wanting to not upload the photos to a server but rather keep them local.

That's one of the reasons I like Picasa Web Albums. I have my photos secured locally, as well as backed up on the web where I can make them available to others. Since we move our RV frequently, using a limited bandwidth data plan, I can't easily provide web access to my own local server for others to access.

[rk911]

Dutch_12078 wrote:
Have you looked at Picasa Web Albums? Google gives you 15GB free, and the web albums will integrate nicely with your local Picasa installation for updating and synchronizing. You can set access by the album or even the individual photos, private, link only, or public.

I was wanting to not upload the photos to a server but rather keep them local.

[Dutch_12078]

Have you looked at Picasa Web Albums? Google gives you 15GB free, and the web albums will integrate nicely with your local Picasa installation for updating and synchronizing. You can set access by the album or even the individual photos, private, link only, or public.

[mich800]

Something like snapfish would probably do what you want. You can upload the pictures to albums and share specific albums with specific people. They may need to open a snapfish account, I cannot remember. (it is free). My wife uses it for the kids sports pictures and shares with other families on the team. They can then have the pics printed and mailed to them, make calendars, etc.

[rk911]

rwbradley wrote:

MrWizard wrote:
your WD personal cloud drive..
is a misnomer...its not on the web
nobody else can access it
instead of saying western digital wifi network NAS drive, they call it a personal cloud

you need to move them to the web
the cloud is another way of saying web server
its just transparent/invisible..operating in the background from a program/app on your phone or PC..BUT it is the web storage

a personal WD cloud is your own HARWARE/hard drive.
nobody else can access it ..unless it has access to the web

i know that some people are doing this.. its not something i recommend


this is the type of thing that cause lots of confusion

The drives marketed under the WD My Cloud name DO have cloud access using the WD My Cloud service. It is like linking a Dropbox account directly to your WD drive. Your drive attaches to the cloud service when it is plugged into the internet and than allows others (you give access to) to access files directly on your drive in the shared folder.

right. what i'm looking for is the software to use for browsing the photos. I don't just want a folder directory. i'd like my family members to be able to see the photos much like you'd see the prints in a photo album.

[rwbradley]

MrWizard wrote:
your WD personal cloud drive..
is a misnomer...its not on the web
nobody else can access it
instead of saying western digital wifi network NAS drive, they call it a personal cloud

you need to move them to the web
the cloud is another way of saying web server
its just transparent/invisible..operating in the background from a program/app on your phone or PC..BUT it is the web storage

a personal WD cloud is your own HARWARE/hard drive.
nobody else can access it ..unless it has access to the web

i know that some people are doing this.. its not something i recommend


this is the type of thing that cause lots of confusion

The drives marketed under the WD My Cloud name DO have cloud access using the WD My Cloud service. It is like linking a Dropbox account directly to your WD drive. Your drive attaches to the cloud service when it is plugged into the internet and than allows others (you give access to) to access files directly on your drive in the shared folder.

[rk911]

obgraham wrote:
I prefer to keep my own stuff to myself. No outside access. If you've done as many pix as I, you know you have a huge time investment in them.

Why not resize the pix you want to share, and put them on Dropbox?

too many for dropbox. $60 per year...another 'buy once/pay forever' thing.

[rk911]

MrWizard wrote:
your WD personal cloud drive..
is a misnomer...its not on the web
nobody else can access it
instead of saying western digital wifi network NAS drive, they call it a personal cloud

you need to move them to the web
the cloud is another way of saying web server
its just transparent/invisible..operating in the background from a program/app on your phone or PC..BUT it is the web storage

a personal WD cloud is your own HARWARE/hard drive.
nobody else can access it ..unless it has access to the web

i know that some people are doing this.. its not something i recommend


this is the type of thing that cause lots of confusion

I understand that. it will have access to the web.

[obgraham]

I prefer to keep my own stuff to myself. No outside access. If you've done as many pix as I, you know you have a huge time investment in them.

Why not resize the pix you want to share, and put them on Dropbox?

[MrWizard]

your WD personal cloud drive..
is a misnomer...its not on the web
nobody else can access it
instead of saying western digital wifi network NAS drive, they call it a personal cloud

you need to move them to the web
the cloud is another way of saying web server
its just transparent/invisible..operating in the background from a program/app on your phone or PC..BUT it is the web storage

a personal WD cloud is your own HARWARE/hard drive.
nobody else can access it ..unless it has access to the web

i know that some people are doing this.. its not something i recommend


this is the type of thing that cause lots of confusion