The fate of antiques and heirlooms in a disposable age

Re:The fate of antiques and heirlooms in a disposable age by pkamb on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:12PM (#24273556)

Does the Facebook export tool preserve any metadata? That's the major annoyance I've had with FB photos, years later... none of the dates are correct.

I've done the same as you, importing every family digital photo I can find into iCloud Photos. Flip Phones, Palm, BlackBerry, early digital cameras. $10 data cables from eBay are the way to go.

I've yet to tackle the film photos and slides, but that's next on the list.

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Re:The fate of antiques and heirlooms in a disposable age by aantix on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:25PM (#24273711)

I've had the same issue with Facebook's export to Google Photo's.

The descriptions exported as "Copy of... #{description}" which is really lame. And cumbersome to clean up.

And then there were a whole host of videos and photos that did not import with the original date/time stamp.

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Re:The fate of antiques and heirlooms in a disposable age by aantix on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:23PM (#24273696)

I have a big bucket of those old photos as well. I haven't tackled it yet, but I did find this service that will scan 1800 photos for $145. https://www.scanmyphotos.com/services/photo-scanning.html

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