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This is huge for me. I call myself an ameteur photographer, which really just means that I have an expensive camera and took a photo class or two a long time a
by hn_user2 12y ago
This is huge for me.
I call myself an ameteur photographer, which really just means that I have an expensive camera and took a photo class or two a long time ago.
This solves an enormous problem of safely storing all of my photos.
Sure I have come up with workflows in Aperture to sync to a cloud device, create vaults, make manual backups, etc--but this can hardly compare to a workflow of click a button to enable. Additionally, as I spend more and more time overseas it becomes increasingly impractical to lug around devices for backups.
My only worry is if this new application will be a good replacement to Aperture
- sib 12y agoUnfortunately, it's not even close to being a good replacement for Aperture. As far as seamless backup, a local-network Time Machine drive, plus Backblaze cloud service, is a very easy and cost-effective way to get both superfast local backup and off-site backup. And, after a very small amount of setup, it "just works" without any specific workflow.
- hn_user2 12y agoUnfortunately, living overseas on just a laptop means limited laptop storage, and no desire to lug a time machine or hard drives around. All of this means complicated (for me) workflows of bringing in photos as referenced objects, backing the photos up to the cloud in a way I can easily re-reference them, then backup the aperture library to the cloud with thumbnails--which is still a quite large upload on sometimes questionable connections, and then delete the referenced objects locally once I am on to the next project, making sure they all got to the cloud ok first. Not impossible. Just the prospect of a toggle button for iCloud photo sync is a very welcome idea. I feel like my current flow is just waiting for me to make a mistake.