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Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by krrrh » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

dangwu wrote: post #36

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

This article is a little weird. The title is actually "Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service " but then the small print says "...to Google Photos." It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet? It also only allows customers from a small fraction of countries to use this, which I really don't get. Maybe those are all the places iCloud Photos and…

It's the first part of the Data Transfer Project - an initiative between major online service providers to provide an easy way to transfer data between their services.

That's interesting, and it's the first I've heard of the project. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Apple has yet released the adaptors to the open source project [1]. As much as I'm not interested in having Apple copy my photos to Google, I am very interested in scripting my own offline backups without having to make space for Photos.app to store all my photos on my laptop's SSD. Hopefully the adaptors are added to the project soon.

[1] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by elliottkember » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

dangwu wrote: post #68

If any Google Photos product people are here... Since you're ending free unlimited photo storage, I badly want a feature that automatically finds all groupings of similar photos and deletes all but the best one (least blurry, most smiles, whatever you decide). Whenever I take photos, I tend to spam the shutter button, so I end up with 3+ photos of anything and everything. I could stay on Google Photos for many, many…

I don't know whether you're on iOS, but if you are, the app on the app store called "Gemini" has been a game-changer for me in this regard.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by Solocomplex » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

dangwu wrote: post #68

If any Google Photos product people are here... Since you're ending free unlimited photo storage, I badly want a feature that automatically finds all groupings of similar photos and deletes all but the best one (least blurry, most smiles, whatever you decide). Whenever I take photos, I tend to spam the shutter button, so I end up with 3+ photos of anything and everything. I could stay on Google Photos for many, many…

Pixel motion photos Top Shot uses AI to do this.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by nlgfd » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #19

cube2222 wrote: post #4

Is there similar functionality for the other way around? So basically a simple migration from Google Photos to iCloud?

This should be what you're looking for: https://takeout.google.com

nah it's not the same - I migrated from Google Photos to OneDrive last month and while it did migrate everything to OneDrive for me, it put everything into little 10GB .zips that I had to download, extract, re-upload.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by crooked-v » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #57

miles wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I hope that Apple will eventually allow bulk downloads of iCloud photos to the desktop. Right now you can only do 1,000 at a time When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage").

When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage"). Unfortunately, that wouldn't work for my wife's situation. Her computer is one of those MacBooks with a 256GB drive, and only one USB-C port. So the amount of data stored in her iCloud photos…

Library view, All Photos, then click and shift-click to select a range of photos, File -> Export Unmodified Original. That way you can export a chunk at a time, as long as you keep track of which ones you stopped at for each batch.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by goatinaboat » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

krrrh wrote: post #55

dartharva wrote: post #31

Unrelated, but this reminds me of a recent incident. A friend came over to me asking for help transferring his WhatsApp chats from his old iPhone to his new Android phone. Turns out there is no official/practical way to do that, and he lost all hos chat and media records made across years (WhatsApp is the main mode of communication here, it's like opening up your official mail inbox one day and finding it completely…

It's interesting to watch consumer behaviour around Telegram's growth and how much value people place on preserving conversation history at the expense of security and privacy. Even people who are aware that e2e encryption is only enabled on Telegram when you explicitly open a private chat soon abandon it because it lacks multi-device support which makes it easy to miss messages. WhatsApp has always simplified their…

It's interesting to watch consumer behaviour around Telegram's growth and how much value people place on preserving conversation history at the expense of security and privacy

Telegram has a feature to import all of your WhatsApp history, but I haven't tried it yet.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by anamexis » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #57

miles wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I hope that Apple will eventually allow bulk downloads of iCloud photos to the desktop. Right now you can only do 1,000 at a time When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage").

When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage"). Unfortunately, that wouldn't work for my wife's situation. Her computer is one of those MacBooks with a 256GB drive, and only one USB-C port. So the amount of data stored in her iCloud photos…

I did the SMB share (over WiFi, to a NAS) you mentioned and backed up my library without too much trouble. This was about 120GB.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by boatsie » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

dangwu wrote: post #68

If any Google Photos product people are here... Since you're ending free unlimited photo storage, I badly want a feature that automatically finds all groupings of similar photos and deletes all but the best one (least blurry, most smiles, whatever you decide). Whenever I take photos, I tend to spam the shutter button, so I end up with 3+ photos of anything and everything. I could stay on Google Photos for many, many…

I wish this existed as well but with the added element of AI based merging where it can take the best in focus faces (eyes open and smiling) and composite them into a single image. Seems very possible but I haven’t heard of an implementation.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by codercotton » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:13 PM UTC

dangwu wrote: post #36

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

This article is a little weird. The title is actually "Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service " but then the small print says "...to Google Photos." It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet? It also only allows customers from a small fraction of countries to use this, which I really don't get. Maybe those are all the places iCloud Photos and…

It's the first part of the Data Transfer Project - an initiative between major online service providers to provide an easy way to transfer data between their services.

For those curious - https://datatransferproject.dev

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by jkingsman » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:13 PM UTC

VladimirGolovin wrote: post #58

msh wrote: post #3

Then we are only missing google providing the same service! (I know of google takeout, which is great but not the same as this)

Takeout is NOT great, at least in my case. I never once managed to fully download my photo archive, despite my repeated attempts. I gave up, so my current "strategy" for keeping my photos safe is "Never ever do anything that might make Google algorithms think that I'm violating their ToS".

Yup, when I do my quarterly "Takeout everything" I always separate the photos request out because it takes 3-4 attempts to get it to work. Every single other service? Almost always works first time, even when they're all combined. Photos is the problem child.