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> I'm heavily locked in You should be able to download the music you bought from iTunes DRM free. For the movies/etc, just pirate them. You already "bought"

> I'm heavily locked in You should be able to download the music you bought from iTunes DRM free. For the movies/etc, just pirate them. You already "bought" them so morally you're in the clear. For the software/etc, walk away from it. Sunk costs.

gw98 4y ago
I have little software investment (mostly pixelmator) but I am using Apple Music subscription. I've paid for it for over 3 years so I think I've paid enough anyway...
kjkjadksj 4y ago
The hard part is if you have a lot of content on icloud. Ive yet to find a reliable way to pull content from icloud locally. Apples first party download service doesnt really work for large icloud accounts, the downloads just fail to complete and you have tens or hundreds of gb to download. Ive tried third party command line tools and they silently crash after a couple dozen files, as in they will just hang until I notice they have failed so I cant just automate something to restart the script after fail. I’m actually at a loss here how to migrate from icloud.
- gw98 4y ago
  Mine is entirely sync'ed to my mac. I just literally run iCloud off and I have everything local.
  - withinboredom 4y ago
    So you have to buy a Mac to get your files?
    - gw98 4y ago
      I already have a Mac. I'm trying to get rid of it. You can download icloud for windows as well. And slowly download shit off the web UI.
      - kjkjadksj 4y ago
        Web ui is broken the downloads always error out for large icloud accounts in my experience.
  - kjkjadksj 4y ago
    Whenever I try and sync the photos to the mac photos app it crashes to desktop probably because I have like 60gb of unsynced photos.
    - gw98 4y ago
      That’s terrible. My library is 100GB and works fine so may be worth trashing the machine and trying again when freshly installed.