Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

Post by SpyKiIIer » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

mceachen wrote: post #183

warrentr wrote: post #154

Has anyone found a good family friendly alternative? In particular I would really like to: - Pay for the service (sustainable/trustworthy business model) - Be able to very tightly control access to albums as I really don't want kid photos ending up on facebook or similar due to crazy aunt kathy (in google photos anyone with access can add anyone else and until recently there was no way to remove people) - Ability to…

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 sharing are coming soon. https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/ FWIW, I recommend to my beta users that they personally store at least one of their backup copies. https://photostructure.com/…

Post by jcims » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

walterbell wrote: post #218

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I have one primary collection but I also have probably 30TB of old drives lying around with photos scattered all about. Is there something I can do to mount those drives, grab all image files and then dedupe/catalog them (at least by date)? Ideally this would work with videos as well.

There's an ancient-but-maintained image cataloger / asset manager called NeoFinder, available on Windows and Mac. Would love to find an OSS equivalent. https://cdfinder.de/

Post by jcims » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 8:36 PM UTC

avgDev wrote: post #201

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I have one primary collection but I also have probably 30TB of old drives lying around with photos scattered all about. Is there something I can do to mount those drives, grab all image files and then dedupe/catalog them (at least by date)? Ideally this would work with videos as well.

I bought a Synology NAS mainly for images/videos/personal files and run hard drives in RAID setup. You could explore other NAS solutions like QNAP or open source.

Post by three_seagrass » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

jwr wrote: post #190

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Sounds like you should just use Google Photos as it delivers most of that, with perhaps some improvements in 'backing up' outside of GP.

Well, perhaps apart from the fact that you are giving your photos to the company that makes money on targeted advertising and invests bajillions into AI technologies that learn from data. Some of us are distinctly uncomfortable with that, especially given what has been done to Gmail — your mail is being fed to machines and used to build an advertising profile for you.

Post by ghaff » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

skybrian wrote: post #246

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Why not just pay $30/yr to get access to all the features which Google Photos (and other Google services) offer? I know $30 is not the same everywhere but if you are in US (and assuming you are in tech given you are on HN), you'd spend that much in a dinner without thinking much. There is something about paying about online services which brings a lot of resistance in us (me included but I think I am getting over it)

I am pretty much all-in with Google and do what I can to protect my Google account, but one risk you can't get rid of is if Google cancelled your account for whatever mysterious reason, which is unlikely but would be catastrophic. I still like Google Photos, but ideally I'd automatically sync all my photos to a backup service and have things set up so I could make it the primary replica if needed.