I CAN access my deceased family member's backup drives; how do I preserve photos, movies, etc?

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  • czkawka

    Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

    Can run czkawka over the files to check for duplicates. It's free and has some decent options.

  • PhotoPrism

    AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

    If you wanted to set up a server to host the photos then there's Photoprism which has some neat features. If you just want a local organizer then digikam is worth checking out.

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    Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.

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