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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to be an archivist, and I remember being taught that digital files have a lifespan of less than 7 years. The lifespan of a physical photograph is much longer: 100+ yrs?

Whether you actually want/need all your photos in the future is a different question but if you want to have a set of photos to give your kids in thirty years, you should have them printed. Putting them in an album will make them easier to keep (or have them printed into one of those books).

Scanning is great to share the photos or make a backup, but it's very unlikely those files will be accessible in 30 years unless you constantly put energy into migrating them to new file formats. Think about all the files on floppy disks or CD-ROMs that are really hard to access now. [/quote]
If you keep all your photos into one centralized database, there is no energy involved. Now I admit it did take me some time to combine all old photos from discs, computers and cds into one but you have to spend as much time time organizing digital photos as you used to in making albums (probably more since we now take more photos). But I disagree that they will only last 7 years if you are keeping up with it! I have every digital photo starting from my kids birth in 2002. [/quote]

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