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Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by rsync »

atdt wrote: post #210
rsync wrote: post #194

Does rclone[1] interface with iCloud Photos ? It works just fine with google photos[2] ... Without installing rclone and without using any of your own bandwidth, you should be able to: ssh user@rsync.net rclone icloud:/blah gphotos:/blah Or maybe you just want to keep a copy in your rsync.net account: ssh user@rsync.net rclone icloud:/blah /your/dir/tree [1] https://rclone.org [2] https://rclone.org/googlephotos/

Frustratingly, support for Google Photos in rclone is handicapped by the limitations of the Google Photos API: you can't download Photos at original resolution. This is documented on your second link.

That's unfortunate ... and I believe there are some other end-user ("consumer") products that also interfere with the direct mechanism that 'rclone' uses to request data.

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Post by RoadieRoller »

rakoo wrote: post #144

It is a bit sad to see something as simple as "you can now take your photos and put them where you want" become a newsworthy article. This is yet another demonstration that Digital Feudalism is alive and well, and just like its ancestor, we need to get rid of it by empowering people to be their own self

My criminal mind says this could be a way for Apple (and Later Google) to benefit more, from the difference in the price of their phones - Thanks to pricing based on Storage. Once they allow these photo storages to duplicate your data, you will need double the storage and phone starting line-up would be 256GB and upwards very soon. I think innovation to make money has saturated, and now it would be quirks like this to make more money per phone.

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Post by lrem »

Barrin92 wrote: post #191
azinman2 wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, someone (who?) comes out with a standard, and then everyone just freezes capabilities then? Nothing evolves? Or if it does, it does so very unequally? Already in this announcement is the non-transfer of Live Photos because presumably Google doesn't support it. Apparently they also have a 20k per album cap, which at that point you get different behavior than you're expecting. These are just a few examples of where…

>and then everyone just freezes capabilities then? Nothing evolves? Or if it does, it does so very unequally? every client provider can do whatever they want, that'd be the beauty of it. Someone could write a stripped down, privacy respecting Facebook client and charge users five bucks instead of running ads, if that's what users want. Someone could offer a chronological news-feed free of algorithmic meddling, or one…

I think you missed an important link here: opening the API is not the same as making a good standard. The latter tends to take years. The former... Well, Google internal APIs often have minor changes every couple weeks. And the standard of documentation is more or less "go read the code". Opening those would not be useful. I don't know if Facebook is any better. But their motto is "move fast and break things", so I'm skeptical.

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Post by trimbo »

sullysaas wrote: post #235

I have 992GB of photos stored in Google Photos and I desperately want something to transfer all of them FROM Google Photos to any other service. Google Takeout fails to export all of my photos..

Does it actually miss data that should be there or does the Takeout fail?

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Post by GeekyBear »

simplerman wrote: post #141
reaperducer wrote: post #57

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When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage"). Unfortunately, that wouldn't work for my wife's situation. Her computer is one of those MacBooks with a 256GB drive, and only one USB-C port. So the amount of data stored in her iCloud photos…

> I'm not interested in buying a hub for a one-off operation. If cost is the issue, there are a lot of off-brand hubs. I bought one for $15 of Amazon. So far no issues.

One of PC Magazine Editor's Choice name brand hubs with support for power delivery retails at $30.

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Post by bydo »

amelius wrote: post #250
planb wrote: post #176

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But you could always do this. Apple seems to go a step further and does this on your behalf. I think that’s newsworthy.

I still can't insert a USB drive into an iPad without hassle.

You can on an iPad Pro?

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Post by [deleted] »

Barrin92 wrote: post #211
puszczyk wrote: post #198

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What does the Facebook get out of it?

absolutely nothing, it would subject their applications to genuine competition (they could of course still offer their own client) and destroy their walled garden, which is the entire point. The purpose such regulation is to benefit consumers, developers, and the health of the market overall. not Facebook. I assume they would be kicking and screaming.

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Post by megablast »

amelius wrote: post #250
planb wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you could always do this. Apple seems to go a step further and does this on your behalf. I think that’s newsworthy.

I still can't insert a USB drive into an iPad without hassle.

And I can’t still plug my vga monitor into my iPhone.

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Post by Spivak »

amelius wrote: post #250
planb wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you could always do this. Apple seems to go a step further and does this on your behalf. I think that’s newsworthy.

I still can't insert a USB drive into an iPad without hassle.

From literally any browser you can get a zip of all your iCloud photos and your iPhone/iPad will present itself as a mass storage device on any PC.

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Post by somethingwitty1 »

lupire wrote: post #204
somethingwitty1 wrote: post #172

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There is a lot of secret sauce in protocols. Those decisions can have serious positive/negative implications on performance and features. Making those easily available to everyone could potentially destroy a business. Don't get me wrong, I've had to reverse engineer my share of proprietary protocols to get behavior I wanted (and would have loved to see them be open), but I don't think I can get onboard with the idea…

The secret sauce in Apple/Google photos is not the API for accessing the data.

But we aren't discussing just these specific APIs/protocols (and I haven't look at them, so I'd have to take your word on that), we are discussing this generally.
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