Why is Photos still not a public API?
I'm happy to pay for the storage but I need a Linux client. I'd write one myself with a song in my heart, but Google keeps obfuscating this stuff for no good reason.
Introducing Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive
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#72Still, no linux client.
I am mystified as to why Google keeps ignoring Linux especially for Drive. Don't a non-trivial number of Google employees run Linux? It also rules out Drive for company wide deployment if any of the people are using Linux, since they will be excluded. That is one thing Dropbox at least gets right.
If memory serves, Google runs a custom build of Ubuntu which they've never released--probably due to licensing with Canonical. My guess would be that the Linux Google Drive client may, too, have some restricted licensing. We do know they have one, however:
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/01/official-google-drive-linux-c...
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#73For anyone running the macOS high Sierra beta, don't install this yet. I installed it, but it refuses to sync anything on (1) an APFS drive or (2) a network share. The error dialog says it requires HFS+.
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#74>You probably keep your most important files and photos in different places—your computer, your phone, various SD cards, and that digital camera you use from time to time. It can be a challenge to keep all these things safe, backed up, and organized, so today we're introducing Backup and Sync. It's a simpler, speedier and more reliable way to protect the files and photos that mean the most to you. This new tool replaces the existing Google Photos desktop uploader and Drive for Mac/PC.
This actually describe the problem a lot of people have without providing a solution. Uploading, Syncing doesn't fix this. How are we going to sort and manage all these files that are scattered in difference medium in the first place? Do we Copy all of them to our PC / Mac? And then Manually sort through all these files, before uploading to Google Cloud?
What if my 256/ 512 GB SSD couldn't fit all these files I have laying around? How am i support to sort through all these files over the last decade if i dont have them stored in the first place?
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#75What 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 does this and, in my experience, it's been pretty good about it. I have yet to run into a file that I needed that wasn't already downloaded locally. Since it uses files based on timestamps, it does it reliably. The only thing it's missing is the ability to lock a file so that it's always available, regardless of last access time/date.
Does it have the ability to 'unsync' a file? IE: if a large file is on iCloud drive, will I be able to remove it from my local disk?
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you cast photos from the Photos app in your phone?
Yes. Which makes sense because you are actively sharing them and can end the display whenever you want. No privacy issues.
Sounds like the appropriate solution for OP's use case of the wife looking at them on the TV.