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Yes — that’s exactly what Photos Backup Anywhere is designed to do. The app creates file-system-level backups of each individual photo and video from your Photos library. Every ass…

Yes — that’s exactly what it’s designed for. You can back up photos from one Photos library and later restore them into a different Photos library. The restore process recreates th…

Yes — Photos Backup Anywhere supports Apple Family Sharing If the app is shared via Family Sharing, each family member can install and use it on their own Mac with their own iCloud…

Thanks or the detailed feedback. You’re right about that error message. What’s happening is that when the SMB share gets unmounted, the app can no longer access its SQLite database…

Yes — in Apple Photos the manually edited date/time is not written back into the image or video file. It’s stored separately in the Photos library database, which is why tools like…

That’s a good question. To be completely honest, I don’t know much about Advanced Data Protection myself, and I didn’t do anything specific in the app to detect or interact with it…

Metadata is stored in an SQLite database alongside the backed up files. The format is not documented, but should be self explanatory if you examine the schema.

Backing up “mercurial” Photos data is only half the problem. The tricky part is restoring it in a way Photos actually recognizes as equivalent to the original library state. Photos…

Not directly, no. If you can mount the S3 target as a drive, it can be used as a backup destination.

HN disclosure: I’m the author of Photos Backup Anywhere, but this thread mirrors the exact issues that pushed me to write it. One thing that surprised me when digging into Apple Ph…

Where is the link? How can iPhone backup directly to an external hard drive?

Very cool! I've transitioned from using Google Translate and DeepL to ChatGPT for translations. In general I think the ChatGPT translations are better, but the default UI for is a …

Hey HN, I’m excited to share Test Pilot Hub, a platform designed to help iOS and Mac developers find reliable TestFlight beta testers. The idea is simple: developers can promote th…

While that might be Apple's "official" solution, there's a major caveat: the Photos app doesn't support storing the Photos library on a networked disk. This forces you to either fi…

I wanted to share an interesting experiment I've been working on: creating a double-entry accounting system entirely in a PostgreSQL database. It's inspired by plain-text accountin…

I wrote a Swift library to experiment with this architecture using SQLite. https://github.com/gerdemb/SQLiteChangesetSync The library works at the database-level and stores databas…

I created an experimental Swift package that implemented this architecture using SQLite. https://github.com/gerdemb/SQLiteChangesetSync As you noted, detecting conflicts is easy, b…

Thanks for your comment. Let me know if you end up implementing this on Android. I think this concept could be adaptable to other platforms or languages. I just happened to be work…

Hello HN! I’m happy to introduce SQLiteChangesetSync, a Swift package I’m sharing for the first time. It’s designed for offline-first synchronization of SQLite databases across dev…

Their latest problem is a flaky internet connection that sometimes drops and I’m not sure if it’s the router or their ISP and it’s very difficult to debug. There are local mom and …

Nice to hear from someone else with a huge iCloud Photo Library--we've got about 1.2 TB! After a lot of experimentation with Google Photos, Synology's photo APP, etc. we finally se…

I’m developing a Mac app for backing up iCloud Photos here www.ibeni.net

Thanks for the feedback! The app started as a personal project exactly to solve the problem you mention of the iCloud library exceeding the available disk space. (My personal libra…

I think this a great idea and I could see it as a great solution for my parents who often call with tech-support questions that I cannot effectively help them with as I live too fa…

Hey HN, I've just rolled out my very first app for Mac, 'Photos Backup Anywhere'. It's been a mix of fun (learning Swift!) and frustrating debugging (buggy Apple libraries), and no…