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Automatic de-duplication of photos with the same name
I recently went through a year’s worth of photos from my wife’s phone, and found three distinct “img_0001.jpg”’s just in that single year. Apple’s naming convention is so short sighted that I’d be terrified letting a piece of software try to dedupe it “by name “
I was there until I saw this feature: Automatic de-duplication of photos with the same name I recently went through a year’s worth of photos from my wife’s phone, and found three distinct “img_0001.jpg”’s just in that single year. Apple’s naming convention is so short sighted that I’d be terrified letting a piece of software try to dedupe it “by name “
No, it is not. It came from DCF standard that predates smart phones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...
I was there until I saw this feature: Automatic de-duplication of photos with the same name I recently went through a year’s worth of photos from my wife’s phone, and found three distinct “img_0001.jpg”’s just in that single year. Apple’s naming convention is so short sighted that I’d be terrified letting a piece of software try to dedupe it “by name “
> ... Apple’s naming convention. No, it is not. It came from DCF standard that predates smart phones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...
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I use libimobiledevice on linux plug iphone into usb. lsusb should show it. I backup my photos with: sudo ifuse -o allow_other /mnt rsync -a /mnt/DCIM sudo umount /mnt Actually, I backup all of /mnt not just DCIM, but that answer is for you. I also backup the entire phone with: sudo idevicebackup2 backup but in this form it either does the photos as data files, or doesn't back them up. I think it is a complete backup…
Do you take into account the iPhone not holding the original images of every photo? It will offload originals and just keep thumbnails if the library is too large. Mine is approaching 1.5TB, I’ve got no hope of keeping that all on an iPhone, and also no guarantee that any given photo is fully available locally.
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Perhaps no one here has tried to download an entire iCloud library at once, or perhaps size is an issue, but that doesn't change the fact that there is no download button for iCloud Photos and iCloud Photos Downloader simply solves this. That's what this post is about.
iCloud Photos Downloader is an option, yes, but it is incorrect to say that Apple does not provide an official way to do this on Mac. Again, I direct you to the Apple Store so someone can show you in person, since you won't listen to anyone on here.
Photos on MacOS indeed synchronise photos with iCloud.
After our conversation I had tried to understand why I indeed don't see any status and I found out, that to get one in Monterey iOS I must need to scroll down of the collection and after, at the bottom pul whole page for the second time. Status message appears and it was saying that syncing was disabled due to Mac performance (I didn't asked for this).
Apologies, for misleading, code543 and thank you for consistence.
However, I must admit that I'm happy that found iCloud Photos Downloader as a result, also I liked that it's downloading all photos in date/folder structure.
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If you open the Photos app (macOS) connected to iCloud with an empty library, there will be no photos until you import them from your phone. Hope this is clear now. iCloud via browser has a limit of 1k photos per download.
This is not correct. You don’t need an iPhone for Photos.app to work. There are plenty of problems with Photos.app but the issue you describe isn’t by design.
Thank you for proving me wrong.
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Perhaps no one here has tried to download an entire iCloud library at once, or perhaps size is an issue, but that doesn't change the fact that there is no download button for iCloud Photos and iCloud Photos Downloader simply solves this. That's what this post is about.
I can personally confirm I've downloaded an entire iCloud library at once, to a brand new Mac, using the 'Download Originals to this Mac' option. As have many others here, I would think. That's literally what that option is for. If it's not working for you, you might be dealing with a bug, or perhaps you haven't given it enough time to sync. If you go to Photos > Library and scroll down, it should show you the sync s…
Long story short, iCloud wasn't syncing photos "due to performance" and this message was hidden.
Thanks once again!
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Let me be one more voice telling you that you are wrong. I just did this morning. In settings, "download originals to this mac", select all photos, file -> "export unmodified originals" will trigger the Photos app to download every file from iCloud into your local library (as well as exporting them to wherever you want) I guess "there is no download button" but dude...I don't need iCloud Photos Downloader.
Thanks for letting me know. May I ask what macOS version you use? Unfortunately, I'm unable to locate any button, status bar, or option to refresh or pull everything from iCloud in macOS Photos. There aren't even any details showing what percentage of iCloud is currently synchronized with macOS Photos. With nothing to debug, I can only conclude that for some reason the sync isn't working in my case. It's great if thi…
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This works because you had synchronised your iPhone with your Mac previously. If you start with an empty Photos library and phone, it is impossible to put all the photos on the phone and thus transfer them to your Mac.
No, I’ve downloaded the entire library to a new Mac. It worked fine.