External Drives come with software now to help people sync the data, (for the less techincal).

You could also just manually copy the data by clicking and dragging.

I’m kind of a command line junkie so I use robocopy in scripts.

Password management is another big topic that is pretty big.

Something as simple a writing it down on paper in a safe location works for some.

https://bitwarden.com/

https://1password.com/

Are also other options.

Trust level can vary. Publicly shared photos I would suspect you’d be okay with. Your crypto wallet… less so. Everyone needs to work out what’s best for them, however, the original point is … don’t have all your eggs in one basket. Backup your data.

It is an insane tool to get the data moved / shared / copied / transfered quickly. The risk is sharing to sources you didn’t want, like the service provider, (look up Rick and Morty work being deleted due to copyright infringement…off the writers account). Also what if your account is stolen / hacked / deleted and Apple / Google / MS… aren’t being cooperative with recovery.

Two drives is a good thing. Always have a copy at a remote location and swap it out rather than shuttling the one drive back and forth.

rclone is a good solution. I use it myself. I also just found out about syncthing which is great for syncing with your phone to something to the local network.

I probably got an answer from you there. Thanks for sharing.

Done. I wonder if you can have a template to auto-populate.

My sincere condolences.

We are in an age that this shouldn’t happen.

Phones to capture events should be an opertunity to capture videos and photos. Dinner with extended family, birthdays, holidays, vacations are best opertunity to do this.

On top of this, I’d add, share the photos/videos with everyone there, (be it Facebook, Google photos, Whatsapp, Discord…). Same concept applies to you, that photos you have, aren’t lost to your digital vault when it’s your time.

I agree. I’ve has to scrap and force upgrade multiple devices over the years, solely due to the battery dying quickly. Definitely a built in obsolescence built into the industry that needs to be fixed.