Private access of photos on a pc?

[note235]

One of my friends needs access to my photo collection (stored on a pc quite a distance away), what's the access method for me allow her to browse said collection of photos (mostly jpgs, a good chunk in RAW)

thanks!

 

[r-486]

There should be a bunch of methods. TeamViewer would work.

 

[note235]

There should be a bunch of methods. TeamViewer would work.

yes teamviewer was my default option but I'm looking to see if there was something a bit simpler for the other person

 

[Quartz-1]

One of my friends needs access to my photo collection (stored on a pc quite a distance away), what's the access method for me allow her to browse said collection of photos (mostly jpgs, a good chunk in RAW)

Put them on a USB stick and send it to her in the post.

 

[r-486]

Another thing you could do is setup an Apache server and just direct her.

Put them on a USB stick and send it to her in the post.

She's quite a distance away he said.

 

[note235]

it's about 800gb of photos to look through
Might seem like Teamviewer probably will be my best option

 

[WestSidaz]

Maybe something like shared network path? she can look your pics via windows own ftp system/network share system..

I mean u could make a vpn network between u two and share your folders like u would in your own network..

 

[Quartz-1]

it's about 800gb of photos to look through

External 1 TB HDDs are cheap enough.

 

[WestSidaz]

and note didnt tell us if pic folder gets updates all the time.. if u update the folder all the time.. then usb sticks and external hdds are waste of time... )

 

[note235]

and note didnt tell us if pic folder gets updates all the time.. if u update the folder all the time.. then usb sticks and external hdds are waste of time... )

I dump it and back them up very every few days
I'll probably do teamviewer or see if I have a spare external (and she won't get any newer pics )

 

[Ktf Fang]

if she just needs to view the photos, then teamviewer seems like the best bet

 

[dar124]

If I'm remembering right, Teamviewer lower's the resolution on the viewing PC. That might cause an issue because you'd get a distorted image when looking at photos??

 

[JoBUSH]

Depends on exactly what quality she needs the photos in, but I'd start by batch converting/resampling to reasonable sizes. Throw those on a shared dropbox/google drive folder and then some sort of file access, maybe through rdp, to grab the full sized files.

 

[flashoverride]

800Gb of files is going to be hard to do on dropbox or google drive...

If you can't set up a direct ftp, then sending a 1TB drive with your archive might actually be best case, then you are only worried about transferring newer files which would be much easier to do via a dropbox or google or onedrive. How much data are you generating, and at what rate?

 

[JoBUSH]

800Gb of files is going to be hard to do on dropbox or google drive...

If you can't set up a direct ftp, then sending a 1TB drive with your archive might actually be best case, then you are only worried about transferring newer files which would be much easier to do via a dropbox or google or onedrive. How much data are you generating, and at what rate?

You apparently missed the part where I suggested batch resampling the images first.

 

[NobleX13]

and note didnt tell us if pic folder gets updates all the time.. if u update the folder all the time.. then usb sticks and external hdds are waste of time... )

Not if you copy the files to a 1TB HDD, mail it to her, and then set up Bittorrent Sync to synchronize the files automatically. I do this with several of my friends for a variety of large video files. Works well.