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I would like a "storage" extension that let me choose my own "iCloud' implementation. That way I could point Photos at Dropbox, Amazon S3, or my own SAN, and s

by Corrado 12y ago

I would like a "storage" extension that let me choose my own "iCloud' implementation. That way I could point Photos at Dropbox, Amazon S3, or my own SAN, and still use the capabilities of the product. My main concern with photos on my computer right now is how much space they take up and how to securely store them off-site somewhere. I know that iCloud could do this but I would probably need the 1TB plan with is $20/month - that's very expensive. Maybe there is a way to only store new photos in iCloud and offload the old ones to Glacier or something. :/

kingnight 12y ago
This is a late reply, but by default, Photos stores images inside a "Photos.photolibrary" package, which is just a special folder. Inside this, all your masters are contained in a "Masters" folder which is arranges every photo in a sub-directory hierarchy of: year > month > day > day-timestamp You could potentially symlink this folder knowing it'd have to be a one-way 'cloud' implementation because I would have to imagine modifications to anything inside here would corrupt the Photos.app library org. Alternatively, you do not have to import photos into Photos' library package and have them as referenced. These referenced files could be in Dropbox/S3-sync'd folder/SAN etc in whatever org you want... same deal though if you modify location/attributes outside of Photos.app, it may mess things up.