the treasure box blog.
plain, calm advice on bringing your photos and videos home from old phones, hard drives and apps, putting them in order by when they happened, and keeping them safe.
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· 6 min read
how to digitize slides and negatives, and keep them in order
carousels of slides and envelopes of negatives, often with no prints left. a calm, practical way to digitize them at home or with a service, keep the scans sharp, and give each one back its year.
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how to download all your instagram photos, and keep them in order
years of posts, stories and reels, some of them the only copy left of a moment. a calm, practical way to export everything from instagram at full quality, and give each photo back its date.
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· 6 min read
how to save whatsapp photos, before they slip away
baby pictures, holiday group chats, a grandparent's voice in an old video, all living inside whatsapp. a calm, practical way to save whatsapp photos and videos somewhere that's yours, and keep their dates.
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how to scan old photos at home, and keep them in order
shoeboxes of prints and albums with sticky pages, most of them one copy on paper. a calm, practical way to scan them with your phone or a scanner, keep the scans sharp, and give each one back its year.
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how to find and delete duplicate photos, without losing the good ones
the same beach day three times over, from the old phone, the cloud and a backup drive. a calm, careful way to find duplicate photos, keep the best copy of each, and clear out the rest safely.
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how to fix wrong dates on photos, so they land in the right year
a christmas morning filed under january 2000, a summer dated the day you copied it. a calm, step-by-step way to find photos with the wrong date, work out the real one, and fix them in batches.
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how to digitize old journals and diaries, page by page
a shelf of notebooks written in your own hand, and only one copy of each. a calm, step-by-step way to scan them with your phone, name them by when they were written, and keep the copies private and safe.
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how to back up family videos, before the next device fails
first steps, birthday songs, a grandparent's stories, spread across phones, camcorder cards and old discs. a calm, step-by-step way to copy the originals and keep them safe in more than one place.
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how to download all your photos from facebook, and keep their dates
years of albums, profile pictures and posts live on facebook, and some of them exist nowhere else. a calm, step-by-step way to download them all, pick the right settings, and hold on to when each one happened.
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· 6 min read
how to download all your photos from icloud, at full quality
a decade of iphone pictures lives in icloud, and you'd like your own copy. a calm, step-by-step way to download them all as the original files, keep their dates, and not delete anything by mistake.
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how to download all your photos from google photos, and keep their dates
years of pictures in google photos, and you'd like a copy that's yours. a calm, step-by-step way to bring them all home with google takeout, without losing when each one was taken.
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how to recover photos from an old hard drive, without making it worse
a drive in the closet that hasn't been switched on in years. a calm, careful way to get the photos off it, and what to do when it clicks, won't show up or asks to be formatted.
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· 6 min read
how to get photos off an old phone, one drawer at a time
two or three old phones in a drawer, each holding a few years nobody has looked at since. a calm, careful way to get the photos off an old iphone or android, even the stubborn ones.
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· 6 min read
how to organize old digital photos, by when they happened
fifteen or twenty years of pictures, spread across old phones, a drive in the closet and a few apps. a calm, step-by-step way to gather them into one place and put them in order.