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Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#41

Post by vagelim » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 6:39 PM UTC

msh wrote: post #33

wspeirs wrote: post #11

It's clear that the cost of storage is approaching $0, but it's surprising to me that the price of these company's services vary so much: - Box: $180/year for unlimited ( https://www.box.com/pricing/ ) - Google: $120/year for 1TB ( https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en ) - Dropbox: $100/year for 1TB ( https://www.dropbox.com/pro ) - Amazon: $60/year for unlimited ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/drive/land…

The problem with amazon cloud drive is that they dont offer a synt client like the rest. So no desktop sync, only manual uploads and downloads.

What do you mean? (removed link)

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#42

Post by Osiris » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 6:41 PM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #25

aresant wrote: post #10

To clear up the pricing confusion: - It's FREE for Prime Members - It's $11.99 a year for non-prime members The other caveat is that it's unlimited for photos, but only 5gig of video.

Can I store my videos frame-by-frame as images?

All JPG images are free, so go for it.

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

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Post by CharlesW » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

vagelim wrote: post #41

msh wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with amazon cloud drive is that they dont offer a synt client like the rest. So no desktop sync, only manual uploads and downloads.

What do you mean? (removed link)

Amazon's desktop app supports batch uploads and downloads, but not sync to/from Amazon Cloud Drive.

However, there are 3rd-party options for this:

• Arq: https://www.arqbackup.com/

• odrive: https://www.odrive.com/amazon

• Synology Cloud Sync: http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/06/synology-cloud-sync-adds-a...

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#44

Post by copperx » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

wspeirs wrote: post #11

It's clear that the cost of storage is approaching $0, but it's surprising to me that the price of these company's services vary so much: - Box: $180/year for unlimited ( https://www.box.com/pricing/ ) - Google: $120/year for 1TB ( https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en ) - Dropbox: $100/year for 1TB ( https://www.dropbox.com/pro ) - Amazon: $60/year for unlimited ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/drive/land…

Do any of these companies provide an official Linux client?

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#45

Post by AdmiralAsshat » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

Anyone have any info on Amazon's security practices for their cloud/photo storage? I'm slightly more tempted to go with them to store my photos than Google, if only for the implicit contract that I'm paying them to be a Prime Member and hence paying in some way for the storage, so they should in theory be less likely to try to profit off of my photos...but I'm also still paranoid.

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#46

Post by natch » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 6:45 PM UTC

vagelim wrote: post #41

msh wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with amazon cloud drive is that they dont offer a synt client like the rest. So no desktop sync, only manual uploads and downloads.

What do you mean? (removed link)

Warning, drive-by download link in parent.

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#47

Post by vagelim » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 6:45 PM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #25

aresant wrote: post #10

To clear up the pricing confusion: - It's FREE for Prime Members - It's $11.99 a year for non-prime members The other caveat is that it's unlimited for photos, but only 5gig of video.

Can I store my videos frame-by-frame as images?

ffmpeg -i input.mov -r 24 output_%06d.png

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#48

Post by jobu » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 6:56 PM UTC

Are there any tools to upload the Photos library for Mac users? I tried the "Amazon Cloud Drive" app, but it's useless. Even when I drill down into the .photoslibrary package the Amazon syncing app gives a "File type error".

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#49

Post by mey » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 7:09 PM UTC

mey wrote: post #8

recycledair wrote: post #5

It's a free trials. It costs $11.99/year.

This detail is horribly hidden. It looks like it's 11.99/year for non-prime members. Free for prime members. Getting this from, go into your Amazon Cloud Drive, then click Manage Storage on the right side. Two plans listed, Unlimited Photos and Unlimited Everything.

Found this http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

Re: Amazon Prime Photos

#50

Post by bognition » Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 7:17 PM UTC

Does anyone know what the privacy restrictions around your photos are? Does amazon reserve the right to scan/analyze the images? I'm becoming increasingly wary of freebies like this, especially ones that provide advertisers/retailers a detailed and intimate view into your life.