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Show HN: Gmail's now 10, recover all the old photos buried in your mails

23 points by caio1982 13y ago

RainforestCx 13y ago
So awesome, thank you! Would love to be able to use something similar to search for and/or give some meta-label-tag to emails that have embedded images too. Will look into it and give it a shot. Thanks again!
- caio1982 13y ago
  I'm glad that you found it useful! Don't forget it's open source, give the tagging feature a try and send a pull request :-)
gkoberger 13y ago
For those of you afraid of the command line, this is based on LostPhotos (Windows/OSX) http://lostphotosapp.com/ http://lostphotosapp.com/, which costs money (boo) but has a really nice interface (yay).
- pazimzadeh 13y ago
  It looks like it's free, at least for OS X. Edit: It's only free for the first 100 photos.
- ivanca 13y ago
  "LostPhotosSetup-IM-1.1.exe is malicious, and Chrome has blocked it." on latest Chrome (33.0.1750.154 m) W7-64
WasimBhai 13y ago
Not working with two factor authentication.
- nacs 13y ago
  You can make one time use keys at Google if you have TFA turned on.
Osmium 13y ago
Just bought the Mac version of this app (happy to support the dev), but a few comments: Would be nice to have some basic filters, e.g. restrict based on sender/recipient. It hasn't finished searching my mail yet, but if it turns out it names the photos based on the recipient etc. then I can just filter them myself... Also, the app doesn't have retina buttons. For most things this would be okay, but even the close/minimise/zoom window controls are pixelated! It's a shame to have a photo-centric app look so poorly, especially when default controls would have fixed that. Edit: Also, the zoom doesn't do anything! But it's not greyed out, so suggests that it does. I actually like the interface, and have nothing against skeuomorphism per se, but it's not cool when it breaks things... Finally, a comment on heuristics: it was really cool to see the restrictions on small file size images and gifs, because that removes a load of emoticons, advertising etc. that otherwise would've added clutter. But additional heuristics would be nice, e.g. it's found some images that are not photos for me. I imagine a simple test would be just counting the number of unique colours present in the image (though I don't know how slow that would be): a lot of the images coming up that aren't photos often have a few dozen colours max. Otherwise very happy to have bought it :) Certainly saves me time doing it all myself by manually syncing everything with some mail client and then searching the attachments folder...

23 points by caio1982 13y ago

So awesome, thank you! Would love to be able to use something similar to search for and/or give some meta-label-tag to emails that have embedded images too. Will look into it and give it a shot. Thanks again!

caio1982 13y ago
I'm glad that you found it useful! Don't forget it's open source, give the tagging feature a try and send a pull request :-)

gkoberger 13y ago

For those of you afraid of the command line, this is based on LostPhotos (Windows/OSX) http://lostphotosapp.com/ http://lostphotosapp.com/, which costs money (boo) but has a really nice interface (yay).

pazimzadeh 13y ago
It looks like it's free, at least for OS X. Edit: It's only free for the first 100 photos.
ivanca 13y ago
"LostPhotosSetup-IM-1.1.exe is malicious, and Chrome has blocked it." on latest Chrome (33.0.1750.154 m) W7-64

WasimBhai 13y ago

Not working with two factor authentication.

nacs 13y ago
You can make one time use keys at Google if you have TFA turned on.

Osmium 13y ago

Just bought the Mac version of this app (happy to support the dev), but a few comments: Would be nice to have some basic filters, e.g. restrict based on sender/recipient. It hasn't finished searching my mail yet, but if it turns out it names the photos based on the recipient etc. then I can just filter them myself... Also, the app doesn't have retina buttons. For most things this would be okay, but even the close/minimise/zoom window controls are pixelated! It's a shame to have a photo-centric app look so poorly, especially when default controls would have fixed that. Edit: Also, the zoom doesn't do anything! But it's not greyed out, so suggests that it does. I actually like the interface, and have nothing against skeuomorphism per se, but it's not cool when it breaks things... Finally, a comment on heuristics: it was really cool to see the restrictions on small file size images and gifs, because that removes a load of emoticons, advertising etc. that otherwise would've added clutter. But additional heuristics would be nice, e.g. it's found some images that are not photos for me. I imagine a simple test would be just counting the number of unique colours present in the image (though I don't know how slow that would be): a lot of the images coming up that aren't photos often have a few dozen colours max. Otherwise very happy to have bought it :) Certainly saves me time doing it all myself by manually syncing everything with some mail client and then searching the attachments folder...