When saving digital files...

[sashawo]

When saving digital photos to an external hard drive, should you resize them smaller? If you do, then do you need to resize them again to print them?

[NicoleScraps]

No, I do not resize them. I just put the original on the EHD. As far as I know, if you make them small and save them like that, they stay small. You can't make them big again. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

[DannyF1966]

You could make them big again, but you'd lose quality. Storage space is cheap (far cheaper than the "cost" of losing information in a photograph you're proud of) so resizing files when archiving them isn't worth the saving, really.