Will I be able to do it?
Using our PhotoElephant client is super easy. The average time taken for new customers to get from hitting "Register" on the sign up form to sending us their first photos is about 3 minutes. And that includes downloading PhotoElephant!Once you've downloaded and installed the client you simply have to teach it where you keep your photos.
Once PhotoElephant knows where to find your pics then you're done!
PhotoElephant will search for new pics once per day and send any it
finds to the Safe Snaps secure servers.
If you'd like to more closely control when PhotoElephant searches for your
photos then that's easy too. You can choose a hourly, daily or weekly regular
scan, or just tell it to search right away; very useful if you've just
uploaded a set of extra special photos from your camera.
You can also choose how much of your Internet connection PhotoElephant will
use. This can be very helpful if you'd like to backup your photos and read
some web pages at the same time. Just set the "Transfer Rate" slider to a
little less bandwidth than your ISP provides you and you'll not even notice
the backup is happening. If you don't know what any of this means,
don't worry you don't have to, PhotoElephant will work just fine and make
sure you photos are safe and sound with us.
Usually PhotoElephant does its work silently, constantly making sure your
photos are protected. If you're interested you can see what it's up to by
just clicking on the "Scan Progress" tab.
This is also where you'd go to manually override PhotoElephant and stop
a scan already in progress if you wanted to.
Once you've uploaded your photos you can always check that they are safe
and sound by loging in to your account. There you'll see thumbnail images
for every photo we are saving for you.
You can save photos from as many computers as you like to the same Safe
Snaps account for no additional charge. Very handy for uploading from
your laptop when you are on holiday.
Safe Snaps stores your photos in exactly the same folder hierarchy that
you use on your own computers so it's easy for you to find anything you are
looking for on our servers. It's in the same place it always was!
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