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From: JF Mezei on 7 Feb 2010 19:03
Short story: cousin died, leaving 2 kids, and a husband in jail.

I know she had a apple laptop. Not sure what she had at home, but she
would have a large collection of family photos, and probably lots of
documents for her business etc.

What would be the best way to preserve this so that the kids would be
able to get this information when they are old enough ?

In the past, parents could just keep physical boxes full of photos and
papers and hand those to the kids when they turned 18.

Say she has 10 gigs worth of pictures. Is there software that would
automartically burn 2 DVDs in ISO 9661 format (readable on just about
any platform, right ?) in such a way that each DVD can be read
individually ? (as opposed to a RAR type of arrangement where all of
the DVDs have to be present to unpack any of it)

Would such software be smart enough to archive the individual files
inside the Iphoto Library, or would it just back it up as a blob full of
gibberish that a windows computer couldn't understand ?


From an ethical point of view, should her emails go to a binary grave,
or should they be preserved for her kids to see later on ?


If they should be preserved, in what form ?
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