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Photo storage /viewing that doesn't try to sync my photos to a computer (making me scared of losing them in a sync mishap) or share them. Electronic equivalent

by jrkelly 12y ago

Photo storage /viewing that doesn't try to sync my photos to a computer (making me scared of losing them in a sync mishap) or share them. Electronic equivalent of a shoebox. Snapjoy did this but Dropbox bought them and shut it down. I haven't seen an alternative - maybe the new Amazon photos does this?

sjm 12y ago
I had an idea a while back for this kind of thing, but never stuck with it. I wanted to make something with Amazon Glacier that would be for long-term storage of RAWs for all those people who don't want to ever really delete a RAW file, with small jpeg previews of your library. Maybe I should dig up my old notes and give it another go.
- btgeekboy 12y ago
  I've mentioned something along these lines before as well. I want it to be seamlessly integrated with Aperture (and likely Lightroom, given how things are going in Aperture-land) such that I can browse all of my photos at any time. The RAWs are securely backed up in some datacenter, and if I want to edit the photo, the RAW is cached locally so that it can be edited. If the photo hasn't been edited in some time now, it's evicted from the cache, and I still have the preview available for perusal.
  - aaronbrethorst 12y ago
    Aperture is very much officially dead. http://www.cultofmac.com/285357/apple-kills-development-aperture-iphoto-os-x/ http://www.cultofmac.com/285357/apple-kills-development-aper...
- aaronbrethorst 12y ago
  I'd pay $10-$20/month for this. But I also currently have about 400GB of photos on my hard drive. Still, I think that with annual contracts, you should be able to achieve a 50% margin on my usage, and I think I'm something of an outlier(?) in terms of usage.
  - romain_dardour 12y ago
    You Want everpix. They got shutdown but no product is coming close to what they had. Except maybe picturelife but they bloat their app with editing and social features unfortunately.
wye 12y ago
I use Google Drive and FolderSync [1] to sync my photos to a folder on Drive. I also just copy-paste pictures from my camera to Drive. Google Drive seems quite cheap in terms of storage for casual usage. [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.andro...
sanswork 12y ago
Hey, I'm currently working on keepallthethings.com. It's not specifically for photos but it does work well for that use case(wanting to tag my photos in a way without duplicating them all over the place was my original drive for creating the site). There is no autosyncing though I am planning on out of browser upload tools in the near future. I should warn it is very early days and there is still a lot to do and a long list of todos to complete but if you want to try it out send me an email(in my profile) and I'll set you up with a free account.
- proveanegative 12y ago
  Your website doesn't work without a "www" in the URL.
  - sanswork 12y ago
    Thank you for the note. I've tried in a few browsers and tried a few online screenshot services to make sure its not just me and they all work without the www so I'm honestly at a loss as to why its not working for you. Hopefully it isn't too widespread a problem though!
    - proveanegative 12y ago
      I've checked it again and now it displays correctly. Perhaps the problem had to do with me using Opera Mini at the time.
Dork1234 12y ago
I am a big fan of SmugMug. They use Amazon EC2 for their backend.
mountaineer 12y ago
I had been looking for this too. Amazon CloudDrive (Prime Photos) does a pretty good job (at least on iOS). Free for Prime members. My only complaint is that the uploading choices are either automatically uploading all photos (which I don't want it doing) or selecting photos one by one. I would like an album level option to upload all photos in an album.

by jrkelly 12y ago

sjm 12y ago

I had an idea a while back for this kind of thing, but never stuck with it. I wanted to make something with Amazon Glacier that would be for long-term storage of RAWs for all those people who don't want to ever really delete a RAW file, with small jpeg previews of your library. Maybe I should dig up my old notes and give it another go.

btgeekboy 12y ago
I've mentioned something along these lines before as well. I want it to be seamlessly integrated with Aperture (and likely Lightroom, given how things are going in Aperture-land) such that I can browse all of my photos at any time. The RAWs are securely backed up in some datacenter, and if I want to edit the photo, the RAW is cached locally so that it can be edited. If the photo hasn't been edited in some time now, it's evicted from the cache, and I still have the preview available for perusal.
- aaronbrethorst 12y ago
  Aperture is very much officially dead. http://www.cultofmac.com/285357/apple-kills-development-aperture-iphoto-os-x/ http://www.cultofmac.com/285357/apple-kills-development-aper...
aaronbrethorst 12y ago
I'd pay $10-$20/month for this. But I also currently have about 400GB of photos on my hard drive. Still, I think that with annual contracts, you should be able to achieve a 50% margin on my usage, and I think I'm something of an outlier(?) in terms of usage.
- romain_dardour 12y ago
  You Want everpix. They got shutdown but no product is coming close to what they had. Except maybe picturelife but they bloat their app with editing and social features unfortunately.

wye 12y ago

I use Google Drive and FolderSync [1] to sync my photos to a folder on Drive. I also just copy-paste pictures from my camera to Drive. Google Drive seems quite cheap in terms of storage for casual usage. [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.andro...

sanswork 12y ago

Hey, I'm currently working on keepallthethings.com. It's not specifically for photos but it does work well for that use case(wanting to tag my photos in a way without duplicating them all over the place was my original drive for creating the site). There is no autosyncing though I am planning on out of browser upload tools in the near future. I should warn it is very early days and there is still a lot to do and a long list of todos to complete but if you want to try it out send me an email(in my profile) and I'll set you up with a free account.

proveanegative 12y ago
Your website doesn't work without a "www" in the URL.
- sanswork 12y ago
  Thank you for the note. I've tried in a few browsers and tried a few online screenshot services to make sure its not just me and they all work without the www so I'm honestly at a loss as to why its not working for you. Hopefully it isn't too widespread a problem though!
  - proveanegative 12y ago
    I've checked it again and now it displays correctly. Perhaps the problem had to do with me using Opera Mini at the time.

Dork1234 12y ago

I am a big fan of SmugMug. They use Amazon EC2 for their backend.

mountaineer 12y ago

I had been looking for this too. Amazon CloudDrive (Prime Photos) does a pretty good job (at least on iOS). Free for Prime members. My only complaint is that the uploading choices are either automatically uploading all photos (which I don't want it doing) or selecting photos one by one. I would like an album level option to upload all photos in an album.