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   by mceachen 6y ago

   I'm working on one that's cross-platform, and, critically, self-hosted. The beta is available for free in exchange for your feedback. It's an early product, but I'm pushing out new features monthly. Face detection and sh
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   > I don't have backups for due to their sheer size If you've been living in the Apple ecosystem for a while, where 1 TB on your laptop is precious , realize that both SSD and spinning rust drives have plummeted in cost over th
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   Your metadata will also be scrambled or stripped as well. GPS almost certainly will be missing. I had a number of images where they _changed the captured-at times in the metadata_ (thanks?) to obviously-incorrect times (and not just a timez
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   For very large Google Photo libraries, you may need to break your library into a series of albums. I had to do this for my wife before Takeout finally decided it could generate an archive instead of "oops! we couldn't make your ar
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   I'm working on a self-hosted one: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/ You're welcome to try out the beta for free, in exchange for your feedback. PhotoStructure is designed to be simple to
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   There are several solutions that are set-and-forget. I have beta users that report success with SyncThing and PhotoSync. I personally use Resilio Sync. They all support automated backups to storage either that you have at home (say, on a NA
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   Here at PhotoStructure, Inc., there's a remarkable amount of access and harmony between the engineering staff, the UX and product team, customer support, and executive teams. It's like we're all thinking with one mind. In co
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   Where do you get your disposable credit cards? All the major US credit cards cancelled their virtual account number programs ages ago. Chase had grandfathered it into ancient accounts, but unceremoniously cancelled it last month. Also: depe
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   If you want to self-host, you're welcome to try out PhotoStructure: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Faster CPUs certainly help everything go faster, but what you're asking of the CPU may matter much more than how fast the CPU is. RAW processing is actually a really interesting application, and rendering time depends heavily on what
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Please don't use this as your only backup. Consider it an experimental cross-machine RAID. You'll adopt the oft-repeated "RAID isn't a backup" mantra as soon as any of these issues hit you (like several have hit me)
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Note that Google Photos is not really a viable backup if you care about quality at all: photos and videos are recompressed into a blurry mess, and your metadata will be likely missing. That said, there are several approaches to downloading
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    If you want to self-host your photos, and you don't mind non-free software, you're welcome to try out https://photostructure.com (disclaimer: I'm the author). The beta is available for free in exchange for your fe
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Howdy! Have you had a chance to update to version 0.9 yet? Sync was reworked and mobile support was improved: https://photostructure.com/about/v-0-9/ If you ever find anything odd, confusing, or buggy, please tell
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Both timeliner and rclone (which are both great projects) are at the mercy of the Google photos api, which removes GPS metadata and elides the majority of other tags. Even something as critical as the captured-at time can get modified from
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    I mean, I've got my favorite app. Our photos from our phones get copied to the home NAS via Resilio Sync where they get picked up by PhotoStructure. (I wrote PhotoStructure).
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    For all the posters saying Google Photos: make sure you have a backup of your originals. Google strips most of the metadata from your images when you pull down a Takeout or use the photos API, including GPS. You can copy your original image
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    (there are good imap clients, at least for Android, which support a sometimes-connected network).
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Several Takeouts may work: a gmail-only archive, a photos-from-only-last-year archive, ...
20. 440.▲
    by mceachen 6y ago

    Resilio Sync and SyncThing are what I recommend to my beta users to backup phones and laptops to their home NAS/server.
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    > assuming no updates Know that the free tier will still open and browse existing libraries: I'm not going to hold anyone's library hostage in exchange for a subscription.
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    I've been soaking in this space for the past couple years as I've developed PhotoStructure, a local-first photo and video manager [1]. I have opinions. While I'm certainly sold, personally, on local-first software (obviousl
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    > feeding paper ... fiddly Printer paper came in long, laser-perforated sheets with tabs. You'd load in the start and one sheet pulls in the next. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery The crank
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    I was surprised that TFA asserted that WebP could be "used everywhere." macOS Safari users must upgrade to Big Sur to support WebP. Only a brave few devs are on Big Sur currently.
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    > Clearly you know more (Guh, didn't mean to come off as pompous! I was surprised when I realized this a while back and thought it would be interesting to share). Anyway, you're correct: low-light photography is where there&#x2
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    This certainly was true a decade ago. It isn't anymore. I spend a lot of time staring at photos from tons of different cameras. I pull in unprocessed raw and JPEG photos from DSLR and flagship phone reviews to verify that metadata ex
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Wholly disagree. MS loves to redesign their UI, but does it half-heartedly. There are dialogs that have had things moved to the ribbon or sidebar or property panel, but only some fields, so the sidebar contents are incomplete and you stil
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    I think it doesn't help you (as an entrepreneur) or the customer if you aren't forthright, especially in your initial communications, which are setting up their first impression of your product and your company. When I was worki
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    If this were true, the better libraries would have more stars, especially when the age of the libraries are similar.
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    > The good thing of open source is that people pick the best available At least at the fringes, popularity can be anticorrelated with quality. I can't count the number of times I've looked for a library to do some task, found a