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Lol two months ago I moved about 80GB of photos from iCloud to Google and it was an absolute nightmare. Nothing worked correctly through the entire collection.
by jcims 6y ago
Lol two months ago I moved about 80GB of photos from iCloud to Google and it was an absolute nightmare. Nothing worked correctly through the entire collection.
- lostlogin 6y agoImagine a service which properly integrated your phone camera (such that messaging etc worked nicely) had a desktop app and allowed network storage and backup. Have I just missed this application?
- jcims 6y agoOh there’s an application alright. Getting it to actually do its job is another matter entirely.
- tokamak-teapot 6y agoI use iPhone + Apple’s Photos app on MacOS for this, but I also include Dropbox for backing up directly from the phone and from any SD cards from other cameras. I also make a backup copy of Dropbox myself.
- lostlogin 6y agoIs this all automatic (excluding the SD card bit)?
- tokamak-teapot 6y agoYes - my phone adds all the photos I take to Apple's Photos and to Dropbox (and Google Photos). I treat Dropbox as the source of truth - and Photos + Google Photos as just useful copies (Photos so I can browse my photos nicely and Google Photos so I can search then nicely). I have Dropbox installed on a machine with a large enough drive to sync it all locally. I leave Backblaze backup running on there to keep a proper backup of Dropbox to their cloud. I also make physical backups of this Dropbox sync every so often to cheap spinning disks - and store them away safely. The only things that aren't automatic here are the physical copies every year or so, and occasionally opening Dropbox on my phone to check it seems to be happily syncing.
- jcims 6y agoThis didn't work for me on Windows for some reason. It would transfer a few photos then the phone would go out to lunch and I'd start getting device errors, application errors, etc.