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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 duffyjp »

sangnoir wrote: post #306
lostlogin wrote: post #230

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You can do it in a VM just fine too. There is usually someone who’ll point out that this probably violates licensing, and it probably does if you do it on non-Apple hardware.

I have an older Mac model I use as a linux box: you just reminded me I install a Mac OS VM without violating the license - thanks!

I was actually running ESXi on my Mini for a while and successfully installed macOS in a VM on it. The performance was horrendous though, so much of macOS depends on GPU acceleration which I didn't get. I think I've read newer macOS builds don't even have a software video fallback, though that might just be the Apple Silicon builds which wouldn't apply to me.

It was definitely a fun project even if not terribly useful.

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

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Post by sgjohnson »

ghaff wrote: post #136
sgjohnson wrote: post #90

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iCloud doesn’t really back up photos. It’s more of a sync. If you’ll manually delete a photo from your phone, it’ll be deleted from iCloud too.

The conflation of sync and backup can actually be really dangerous. You don't want a primary backup to have the opportunity to delete files because they (apparently) have been deleted on the primary.

Yes. RAID is a good analogy.

iCloud Photos will protect your photos in case if you lose your device or it fails or whatever. It won't protect your photos if you delete them (either accidentally or intentionally).

It is not a backup, and even "full" device backups WON'T include the photos, because of the (mostly correct) assumption that they are all in the iCloud Photo Stream. They will be backed up in "full" backups ONLY if you don't use iCloud Photos.

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

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Post by aftbit »

lostlogin wrote: post #340
aftbit wrote: post #335

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Ah yea, if you are stuck using an over-priced Mac laptop as your main machine, and cannot upgrade the storage or use an external hard drive or NAS because of buggy Apple software, that would be a decent reason to keep some of your photos in an exported state instead of keeping the whole archive flat and available online at the same time. Even so, you _can_ buy a MacBook Pro with up to an 8TB drive, it just costs 2x w…

Pretty much yes. Though I’d pay a lot more than I did for my laptop, it’s that good. I regularly see other machines get rated and do try them out but the hardware (trackpad in particular) is never anything like as nice. It works fine with a nas. Each to their own.

Yea absolutely. I use a Linux desktop day-to-day, and a 6 year old ThinkPad on the go, but I'm a software engineer, not a creative professional. If I were a photographer by trade, I would certainly have a MacBookPro too.

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

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Post by twawaaay »

petodo wrote: post #83
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....

I dont laugh, just hope you store it at different locations.

One is always co-located at parents in law. Whenever I drive there with my family I take the newest backup and rotate it.

Just in case I was robbed or had a house fire.

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

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

hyperhopper wrote: post #269
aftbit wrote: post #239

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The seed phrase for a crypto wallet.

How would that do anything? Wouldn't the Blockchain be wiped out by such an event?

Blockchain is much more resilient than regular databases. There are thousands of copies of it across the globe, some are stored deep underground, and even some were launched into the space, I believe.

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Post by KomoD »

InCityDreams wrote: post #253
KomoD wrote: post #28

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> I don't know if it's due to one of those weird GDPR blocking rules (I'm in Europe) but amazonforum.com doesn't let me connect. It's not, I'm in EU as well, can connect without any issues

Those blocks are tiresome. Like the eu is going to go after the eg alabama times or other small sites. I just vpn to usa and send them an email. Google etc...easy meat for gdpr, but for small site - why are you tracking me anyway?

I just compiled a list of american news sites, run a container with mullvad vpn always connected + dante to route the sites to different mullvad socks5 proxies, do the rest as passthru to my normal connection (with the help of a browser extension)

Saves me a lot of time and effort

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

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Post by ElCapitanMarkla »

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.

Been PhotoSync for about 10 years now, it works great
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