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

Post by memoryoak » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 8:16 PM UTC

ericcholis wrote: post #291

getoffmyyawn wrote: post #281

I used to seriously stress out worrying about the huge amount of family photos I have saved in cloud storage and what it would mean to lose them. I've got a local backup as well of course. Even that has to be upgraded every so often to make sure the hardware will continue to run reliably. A few years ago my (very non-technical) mother asked me to make and send her a photo album of recent pictures. My wife and I had s…

I have PhotoSync ( https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html ) set up to automatically send all my iCloud photos to my home NAS which automatically backs up to Backblaze. I can also specify other destinations for PhotoSync and the NAS backup.

Post by memoryoak » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 8:17 PM UTC

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #312

getoffmyyawn wrote: post #281

I used to seriously stress out worrying about the huge amount of family photos I have saved in cloud storage and what it would mean to lose them. I've got a local backup as well of course. Even that has to be upgraded every so often to make sure the hardware will continue to run reliably. A few years ago my (very non-technical) mother asked me to make and send her a photo album of recent pictures. My wife and I had s…

Rough strategy: 1) use iCloud Photos 2) find a Mac with a very large system drive (1tb or above) 3) open the photos app on mac and ensure settings is configured to “download originals” not “save space” 4) make sure the computer is online on a regular basis. You should see ~/Pictures/Photos.app becoming massive over time. 5) setup Time Machine for that computer 6) success! You have a second copy of your photos library…

Post by memoryoak » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 8:25 PM UTC

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exitb wrote: post #152

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As a fellow small ARM machine owner, what's your strategy for getting the photos from iCloud? Is there a tool one shouldn't feel weird to give their iCloud credentials to?

i have been using icloudpd for years. there is a docker image that makes it simple to install on my synology. because of 2fa, i have to re-authenticate it from the terminal every couple of months, but that takes one minute. https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

Post by memoryoak » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 8:26 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #299

AdamN wrote: post #283

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+100. The best and really only useful copy of your digital photo library is a curated set of prints, ideally as part of a book or a calendar.

I've made photo books but I really try to decrease the flow of paper and other physical things into my house. I'm behind at the moment but I heavily curate/edit and upload to Flickr which also lets me access photos when I'm not at home.

Post by wh33zle » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 8:48 PM UTC

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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 :)

To photoprism users: do you know how well it handles identifying photos of kids over the span of years? Google photos absolutely blows me away with its ~1% false positive rate (that is, given a photo, correctly identifying with kid(s) are in it) identifying each of my kids, nieces, and nephews. I don’t really know what its false negative rate (a false negative would be an uploaded photo of John but that doesn’t get t…