Now we just need to be able to transfer iCloud backup of Whatsapp to Google Drive
Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
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Stop spreading this incorrect info. You already have access to this data on both Google Photos and iCloud Photos. The only notable thing is that Apple is offering to perform the transfer for you.
What do you mean? Have you read this? https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio... The fact that you can download a .zip file with your photos is not enough.
Most notably this section about consumer having the right to
> have their personal data transmitted from one controller to another controller.
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Oh. Well, my dislike for the big tech lock-in solutions is more general in nature. Thanks for clearing it up. Curious, what happens if Apple locks your account (not in their ecosystem but M1 got me apple-curious ;)? Can you still export you're data, photos?
Probably not from their online service, but unless you switch on “optimise local storage”, all of the files are already on your local disk in JPEG or HEIC.
I make a lot of photos and videos, those take up a lot of space. 128GB to store everything locally won't cut it. That's why I have a backup in form of Dropbox.
Additionaly, I plan to amend that with a self-hosted solution. I know, this reeks of tin foil, sure. However, whenever I read a horror story of someone getting locked out of their accounts and loosing access to their data a chill runs down my spine. Everytime I see captach start popping up too often I wonder if I'm suddenly, for some reason getting close to getting banned. This is the same reason why I have a GSuite account under my domain and never use login with Blabla solutions.
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#345Unrelated, but this reminds me of a recent incident. A friend came over to me asking for help transferring his WhatsApp chats from his old iPhone to his new Android phone. Turns out there is no official/practical way to do that, and he lost all hos chat and media records made across years (WhatsApp is the main mode of communication here, it's like opening up your official mail inbox one day and finding it completely…
I used Wazzapmigrator to do this a couple of years ago
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That's interesting, and it's the first I've heard of the project. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Apple has yet released the adaptors to the open source project [1]. As much as I'm not interested in having Apple copy my photos to Google, I am very interested in scripting my own offline backups without having to make space for Photos.app to store all my photos on my laptop's SSD. Hopefully the adaptors are added t…
Once your library gets large, local storage is just too hard and expensive on a laptop. Photos.app seems to hate using external or network drives.
Yes, but self-made NAS is always an option, and in this case I'd almost say an ideal for when the balance of trust leans away from unnamed organizations holding your information.
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#347If any Google Photos product people are here... Since you're ending free unlimited photo storage, I badly want a feature that automatically finds all groupings of similar photos and deletes all but the best one (least blurry, most smiles, whatever you decide). Whenever I take photos, I tend to spam the shutter button, so I end up with 3+ photos of anything and everything. I could stay on Google Photos for many, many…
Or please allow me to re-upload previously uploaded "high quality" free photos to "original quality" once I pay. After years of being a paid customer I have still not found a way to do this.
How are they going to recover the bits that were lost? It was free because the images were smaller.
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I use iPhone + Apple’s Photos app on MacOS for this, but I also include Dropbox for backing up directly from the phone and from any SD cards from other cameras. I also make a backup copy of Dropbox myself.
Is this all automatic (excluding the SD card bit)?
Yes - my phone adds all the photos I take to Apple's Photos and to Dropbox (and Google Photos).
I treat Dropbox as the source of truth - and Photos + Google Photos as just useful copies (Photos so I can browse my photos nicely and Google Photos so I can search then nicely).
I have Dropbox installed on a machine with a large enough drive to sync it all locally. I leave Backblaze backup running on there to keep a proper backup of Dropbox to their cloud. I also make physical backups of this Dropbox sync every so often to cheap spinning disks - and store them away safely.
The only things that aren't automatic here are the physical copies every year or so, and occasionally opening Dropbox on my phone to check it seems to be happily syncing.
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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…
don't forget that there will be competition on the protocols as well , I'm not just arguing for protocols as a means for more innovation on the client side, but also more competition on the backend itself. If data becomes portable, which is one side effect of protocols, competition on standards itself intensifies. So if Google and Facebook are bad stewards of their APIs, there is room for competition to emerge. Googl…
I, uh, can't grok competing protocols as a good thing.
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It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet? Considering the fourth word of the second paragraph is "initially," I think you're correct — this is a work in progress. I hope that Apple will eventually allow bulk downloads of iCloud photos to the desktop. Right now you can only do 1,000 at a time, and it took me almost a week to make a local backup of my wife's iCloud photos…
Easy bulk downloads to the desktop (and hopefully to any attached external drive) would give me real peace of mind. Right now, I am a bit nervous with iCloud being the only full copy of my photos. None of my computers have enough storage to hold all my photos. It would be even cooler if my Synology could download all my photos directly from iCloud.
I run this docker container on my Synology to have it download a backup of my iCloud Photo Library
https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/icloudpd/icloudpd/
https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...