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What’s your setup for that? How do you sync (incoming) photos to an arbitrary place outside of the Photos library?

lordnacho 5y ago
I'm not the GP but what I do is all my camera devices will sync to a cloud drive, and my NAS then syncs the cloud drive. Google Photos seems to be able to see them. That way I always have two copies of the image, a cloud version and a local. The main failure mode I'm concerned about is if Google decides I'm no longer worthy of an account. In that case I'll still have my pics and I'll put in the effort to set up some other service.
- peterbraden 5y ago
  How do you do this with iPhoto? With an iPhone it doesn't seem that there is a way to sync with a folder anymore.
  - lordnacho 5y ago
    I'm unsure how to do it with iPhoto. My guess is it syncs up to Apple cloud, from which the NAS should be able to sync? At least once it's off the phone you don't have the sandbox, which is a bit stronger on Apple devices, IIRC. My cameras are all Androids, so I use FolderSync to put things in the cloud. It being Android there's still a filesystem that it can scan. I use an app on my QNAP to bring them back home.
plank_time 5y ago
Synology has an iPhone app called DS Photo you can use to download pics directly to your NAS.
kyrra 5y ago
Different tool, but this forum post lists some options: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/20/3 https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2... Some of the tools recommended are: https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/ https://www.resilio.com/ https://www.resilio.com/ https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html
nowahe 5y ago
I've been using icloud-photos-downloader[0] for a while now, running as a Scheduled Task on my Synology. It supports 2FA as well, I just have to re-auth every 3-4 months. [0] : https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

I'm not the GP but what I do is all my camera devices will sync to a cloud drive, and my NAS then syncs the cloud drive. Google Photos seems to be able to see them. That way I always have two copies of the image, a cloud version and a local. The main failure mode I'm concerned about is if Google decides I'm no longer worthy of an account. In that case I'll still have my pics and I'll put in the effort to set up some other service.

peterbraden 5y ago
How do you do this with iPhoto? With an iPhone it doesn't seem that there is a way to sync with a folder anymore.
- lordnacho 5y ago
  I'm unsure how to do it with iPhoto. My guess is it syncs up to Apple cloud, from which the NAS should be able to sync? At least once it's off the phone you don't have the sandbox, which is a bit stronger on Apple devices, IIRC. My cameras are all Androids, so I use FolderSync to put things in the cloud. It being Android there's still a filesystem that it can scan. I use an app on my QNAP to bring them back home.

plank_time 5y ago

Synology has an iPhone app called DS Photo you can use to download pics directly to your NAS.

kyrra 5y ago

Different tool, but this forum post lists some options: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/20/3 https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2... Some of the tools recommended are: https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/ https://www.resilio.com/ https://www.resilio.com/ https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html

nowahe 5y ago

I've been using icloud-photos-downloader[0] for a while now, running as a Scheduled Task on my Synology. It supports 2FA as well, I just have to re-auth every 3-4 months. [0] : https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...