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I dont get what's new here or am i confused? I have used many services over the years, OneDrive from Microsoft, Google Drive / Photo sync thing, dropbox, Amazon storage, etc. Honestly being that I work at Microsoft I am obviously going to have a bias a bit, but this stuff is not about my work its about my life and how to stay synced across my Windows Phone, Windows 10 devices (i have a few), my iPhone, my iPad, etc.…
(I mean, Drive already has versioning, so this adds... an explicit form of versioning?)
Oh, and where's our Linux client?! Gnome's Drive support is awful. It just locks up Nautilus half the time.
Yeah, they only become trapped on Google's servers.
1. Copy photos from memory card to a NAS. 2. Upload the photos to Google drive using skicka.
I've got a script to simplify this, so in reality the workflow just consists of inserting the memory card and running the script. The photos then appear in Google Photos fairly quickly afterwards. I use this for both jpg and nef. I've been pretty impressed with how good Photos is at handling nef files.
Skicka: https://github.com/google/skicka
What surprises me most is the fact that there seems to be very little interest in meta syncing. I have far more files to store than there is capacity on my SSD, and yet, most of the cloud storage providers seem to offer only full or selective sync capabilities. What I would like to have is the ability to browse my entire file repository and "pin" certain files to make sure I can have the most critical stuff offline,…
I think Microsoft rolled this out as standard for OneDrive in a version of Windows (8? 8.1?), only to revert the change due to customer confusion.
What surprises me most is the fact that there seems to be very little interest in meta syncing. I have far more files to store than there is capacity on my SSD, and yet, most of the cloud storage providers seem to offer only full or selective sync capabilities. What I would like to have is the ability to browse my entire file repository and "pin" certain files to make sure I can have the most critical stuff offline,…
iCloud comes very close, but it's horribly unreliable, and there is no way to keep it from delete certain files you might still be working with.
I had gigabytes to spare, and it deleted a pretty big file while I had it open in Photoshop, I couldn't figure out why Photoshop wouldn't save it, and it was because iCloud had deleted it while I was using it.
Now, it's been stuck at uploading 200 files/200 for about a week.
It might have been because there were actually no files taking up the extra space, but losing all my pictures because my CC didn't work and they don't have their $1.99 or being paranoid that that might happen is not worth it.
What surprises me most is the fact that there seems to be very little interest in meta syncing. I have far more files to store than there is capacity on my SSD, and yet, most of the cloud storage providers seem to offer only full or selective sync capabilities. What I would like to have is the ability to browse my entire file repository and "pin" certain files to make sure I can have the most critical stuff offline,…
I got an S8 in April and between 4k video and shooting in raw I was able to hit 40 gigs a few weeks ago. It is nice to be able to have it all stored off the phone at full rez.
I did have one issue over the 4th. I visited family who did not have wifi and had a heated ceiling which consisted of a few thousand feet of copper cabling. We were 2000ft from a 4g tower but the wires made a decent faraday cage so I had to go outside to show them family photos. I doubt anyone will have the same issue but it did show me what the photos app would feel like without cell data.
What surprises me most is the fact that there seems to be very little interest in meta syncing. I have far more files to store than there is capacity on my SSD, and yet, most of the cloud storage providers seem to offer only full or selective sync capabilities. What I would like to have is the ability to browse my entire file repository and "pin" certain files to make sure I can have the most critical stuff offline,…