Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating your Mac
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Re: Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating your Mac
#2Does this preserve album and other tagging? Because I would love a tool which can do this. icloud takeout is a dump in zip parts with no structure. If your desktop is a PC, there's nothing. I can use a loaner mac, sync, and then.. I'd like to extract the images with album preserved.
Re: Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating your Mac
#3Does this preserve album and other tagging? Because I would love a tool which can do this. icloud takeout is a dump in zip parts with no structure. If your desktop is a PC, there's nothing. I can use a loaner mac, sync, and then.. I'd like to extract the images with album preserved.
hey ggm, not yet but can add.
to speed this up, can you explain what exactly features are you looking for? - album info of a photo? - tags on a photo? - etc
lmk!
Re: Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating your Mac
#4Does this preserve album and other tagging? Because I would love a tool which can do this. icloud takeout is a dump in zip parts with no structure. If your desktop is a PC, there's nothing. I can use a loaner mac, sync, and then.. I'd like to extract the images with album preserved.
want to clarify if you want to:
1. be able to filter photos by passing in album info, such as `./darwin-photos ls --album "vacation" --start 2023-01-01 --local`, OR
2. backup photos + album info so that we know what album each photos belong to in the backup file (i assume you mean this)
if 2nd, no it is currently not preserving that. it is keeping the original photos only, without much metadata encoded
why do you want album / tags info? can u help me understand your usecase better, thank you very much
Re: Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating your Mac
#5Does this preserve album and other tagging? Because I would love a tool which can do this. icloud takeout is a dump in zip parts with no structure. If your desktop is a PC, there's nothing. I can use a loaner mac, sync, and then.. I'd like to extract the images with album preserved.
hey ggm, not yet but can add. to speed this up, can you explain what exactly features are you looking for? - album info of a photo? - tags on a photo? - etc lmk!
Ideally all of it, but album is the primary case. Sidecar files would be fine, or an sqlite3 schema, or even a CSV if it meant scripting recreation of e.g. a link farm from photos as sharded images to directories of albums.
Tags, that's just icing on the cake for me. That said, exif compatible metadata for date helps a LOT.
Re: Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating your Mac
#6Does this preserve album and other tagging? Because I would love a tool which can do this. icloud takeout is a dump in zip parts with no structure. If your desktop is a PC, there's nothing. I can use a loaner mac, sync, and then.. I'd like to extract the images with album preserved.
want to clarify if you want to: 1. be able to filter photos by passing in album info, such as `./darwin-photos ls --album "vacation" --start 2023-01-01 --local`, OR 2. backup photos + album info so that we know what album each photos belong to in the backup file (i assume you mean this) if 2nd, no it is currently not preserving that. it is keeping the original photos only, without much metadata encoded why do you wan…
If you can list albums, and then foreach $album fetch, you can (at a cost of probably re fetching images) do what I want and then post fact reduce the duplicates to hard links.
So if the tool includes a list, not fetch function and includes list albums in a format which matches a get album name or ID, you can do what I want crudely.
Re: Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating your Mac
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
hey ggm, not yet but can add. to speed this up, can you explain what exactly features are you looking for? - album info of a photo? - tags on a photo? - etc lmk!
Ideally all of it, but album is the primary case. Sidecar files would be fine, or an sqlite3 schema, or even a CSV if it meant scripting recreation of e.g. a link farm from photos as sharded images to directories of albums. Tags, that's just icing on the cake for me. That said, exif compatible metadata for date helps a LOT.
One more thing: port code to free OS, Windows, Android and iOS. So this works for people not in macos Photos library given a suitable abi token.
Re: Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating your Mac
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
want to clarify if you want to: 1. be able to filter photos by passing in album info, such as `./darwin-photos ls --album "vacation" --start 2023-01-01 --local`, OR 2. backup photos + album info so that we know what album each photos belong to in the backup file (i assume you mean this) if 2nd, no it is currently not preserving that. it is keeping the original photos only, without much metadata encoded why do you wan…
If you can list albums, and then foreach $album fetch, you can (at a cost of probably re fetching images) do what I want and then post fact reduce the duplicates to hard links. So if the tool includes a list, not fetch function and includes list albums in a format which matches a get album name or ID, you can do what I want crudely.
feel free to install the latest version and try:
- `darwin-photos albums` list album names
- `darwin-photos ls --album --json` will list all photos of the album
do let me know if any valuable feature you're looking for