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Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by wh33zle »

capableweb wrote: post #31
vocatan wrote: post #27

Just to add context - I do have backups, but they're spread across a myriad of different hard drives. I had used Amazon Photos to consolidate, and benefit from the facial recognition to be able to quickly locate pictures of family members quickly. I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up. Thanks for the comments!

> I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up. I'm also looking for something FOSS that can do basic face recognition + maybe even more, but last time I checked DigiKam's detection didn't work so well, or maybe I got spoiled by the detection in Google Photos. If you do give it a go, would be nice if you reported back on your experience :)

Not sure if it has been mentioned already but photoprism added face recognition a few releases ago and it is working well for me: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

The quality of this software is overall extremely good. It is a solo-developer as well so you might want to consider sponsoring them if you end up using it.

I am not affiliated, just a happy user :)

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by ssalenik »

worldsavior wrote: post #57
stepri wrote: post #16

This is just a reminder to take a backup of your cloud photos and store it locally (or other cloud provider). For example, with Google Takeout you can get a ZIP file with all your photos and videos from Google Photos.

That makes no sense. If you have backups locally, why store them on the cloud?

two is one and one is none

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by EdwardDiego »

twawaaay wrote: post #43

And people laugh when they hear about my USB HDD docking station and a fleet of 3.5" HDDs backup setup....

3.5" HDDs?

Aww, I got all excited because I read that as 3.5" FDDs, and got nostalgic for the noise... and installing Windows from like twelve of the bastards.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by yardstick »

bayindirh wrote: post #38
ALLTaken wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For iCloud, would just copying images from iCloud to the backup media be enough?

Local photo library is a folder, disguised as a package. One of the folders store all the originals on the device. Copy that folder, and you're good to go. You can also get the full folder hierarchy, if you wish.

If you enable iCloud for the photo library, and even if you select store originals, I have found that Photos still offloads some pictures. It’s just not guaranteed.

I really wish Apple had a complete export button, similar to google takeout. Or at least a good CLI tool to get the original images one by one.

Fwiw my library is ~200k files and close to a TB.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by riskable »

worldsavior wrote: post #57
stepri wrote: post #16

This is just a reminder to take a backup of your cloud photos and store it locally (or other cloud provider). For example, with Google Takeout you can get a ZIP file with all your photos and videos from Google Photos.

That makes no sense. If you have backups locally, why store them on the cloud?

In case your house burns down. It happens.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by Aromasin »

bayindirh wrote: post #58
foobarbecue wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"knees bees" ... maybe I'm missing a joke, but I always said "bees knees" in this context as a play on "business"

Fixed it, thanks. Sometimes my mind to finger interface changes packets on the way. I guess my nervous system uses UDP.

You're alone not :-)

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by yread »

tastemykungfu wrote: post #39
bayindirh wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digikam is the bees knees in digital asset management. I manage my personal photo archive with that, and it punches way above its weight.

Except for it's horrible face recognition right?.. ugh.

Latest release failed the tests (with some memory corruption yikes) even. Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that it won't eat your photos.

But the v7 uses DNN from OpenCV for face detection that supposedly has 91% accuracy on CPLFW which is pretty good! So how come people here say it sucks?

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by Toutouxc »

worldsavior wrote: post #57
stepri wrote: post #16

This is just a reminder to take a backup of your cloud photos and store it locally (or other cloud provider). For example, with Google Takeout you can get a ZIP file with all your photos and videos from Google Photos.

That makes no sense. If you have backups locally, why store them on the cloud?

One backup is no backup. Two backups is one backup.
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