Oh man I'm with you on the vulnerability of the Cloud! Back up your important stuff on two or three different (currently-playable) media and store them off-site (in one or more places). Refresh as needed. Regards, Mark Durenberger, CPBE -----Original Message----- From: Tom Fine And wait until the majority of people have all their personal photos in "the cloud" and something goes very wrong like a cyber-warfare attack or something. I don't believe data can be "permanently" backed up in a way where it's easily retreivable like a printed book or black and white photo negative. It's much more a hope and pray thing with digital data, no matter how "fail safe" one thinks his system might be. -- Tom Fine