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by gerdemb 8mo ago
Yes — that’s exactly what Photos Backup Anywhere is designed to do. The app creates file-system-level backups of each individual photo and video from your Photos library. Every asset is exported as a real file on disk (HEIC, JPEG, MOV, etc.
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
Yes — that’s exactly what it’s designed for. You can back up photos from one Photos library and later restore them into a different Photos library. The restore process recreates the items in the target library using the data stored in the b
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
Yes — Photos Backup Anywhere supports Apple Family Sharing If the app is shared via Family Sharing, each family member can install and use it on their own Mac with their own iCloud Photos library. The app works with whichever Photos library
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
Thanks or the detailed feedback. You’re right about that error message. What’s happening is that when the SMB share gets unmounted, the app can no longer access its SQLite database (pba.sqlite), and the resulting error isn’t very user-frien
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
Yes — in Apple Photos the manually edited date/time is not written back into the image or video file. It’s stored separately in the Photos library database, which is why tools like Immich usually fall back to the original capture date
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
That’s a good question. To be completely honest, I don’t know much about Advanced Data Protection myself, and I didn’t do anything specific in the app to detect or interact with it. I’m actually curious: how did you discover that it doesn’t
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
Metadata is stored in an SQLite database alongside the backed up files. The format is not documented, but should be self explanatory if you examine the schema.
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
Backing up “mercurial” Photos data is only half the problem. The tricky part is restoring it in a way Photos actually recognizes as equivalent to the original library state. Photos Backup Anywhere restore works by re-importing items while e
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
Not directly, no. If you can mount the S3 target as a drive, it can be used as a backup destination.
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by gerdemb 8mo ago
HN disclosure: I’m the author of Photos Backup Anywhere, but this thread mirrors the exact issues that pushed me to write it. One thing that surprised me when digging into Apple Photos is how much state isn’t represented by just files-on-di
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by gerdemb 1y ago
Where is the link? How can iPhone backup directly to an external hard drive?
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by gerdemb 2y ago
Very cool! I've transitioned from using Google Translate and DeepL to ChatGPT for translations. In general I think the ChatGPT translations are better, but the default UI for is a little tedious. Looks like your tool solves this proble
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2 points by gerdemb 2y ago|0 comments
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by gerdemb 2y ago
While that might be Apple's "official" solution, there's a major caveat: the Photos app doesn't support storing the Photos library on a networked disk. This forces you to either fit your entire library on your Mac&#
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4 points by gerdemb 2y ago|1 comments
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by gerdemb 3y ago
I wrote a Swift library to experiment with this architecture using SQLite. https://github.com/gerdemb/SQLiteChangesetSync The library works at the database-level and stores databases modifications as binary change sets
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by gerdemb 3y ago
I created an experimental Swift package that implemented this architecture using SQLite. https://github.com/gerdemb/SQLiteChangesetSync As you noted, detecting conflicts is easy, but handling them is not.
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by gerdemb 3y ago
Thanks for your comment. Let me know if you end up implementing this on Android. I think this concept could be adaptable to other platforms or languages. I just happened to be working in Swift and so I started there. It took about a week to
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5 points by gerdemb 3y ago|2 comments
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by gerdemb 3y ago
Their latest problem is a flaky internet connection that sometimes drops and I’m not sure if it’s the router or their ISP and it’s very difficult to debug. There are local mom and pop shops that will do computer service, but minimum charge
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by gerdemb 3y ago
Nice to hear from someone else with a huge iCloud Photo Library--we've got about 1.2 TB! After a lot of experimentation with Google Photos, Synology's photo APP, etc. we finally settled on going all in on the Apple ecosystem (we&#
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by gerdemb 3y ago
I’m developing a Mac app for backing up iCloud Photos here www.ibeni.net
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by gerdemb 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The app started as a personal project exactly to solve the problem you mention of the iCloud library exceeding the available disk space. (My personal library is more than 1 TB in size.) The app doesn't require
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by gerdemb 3y ago
I think this a great idea and I could see it as a great solution for my parents who often call with tech-support questions that I cannot effectively help them with as I live too far away.
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1 points by gerdemb 3y ago|2 comments
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by gerdemb 6y ago
Interactive Brokers has a stock lending program and shares half the profits with their customers who opt-in. They are transparent about how it works. (Basically they deposit cash collateral to your account to cover the stocks they’ve lent o
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by gerdemb 6y ago
Features - Find duplicate images using perceptual hashing which can match similar images even if they have been resized, edited or had changes to their metadata (EXIF) tags, etc. - Web interface for browsing images and deleting duplicates -
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3 points by gerdemb 6y ago|1 comments
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by gerdemb 6y ago
Looks similar to https://symptomate.com
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by gerdemb 6y ago
Yes, I think it’s something like that, but as far as I can tell it’s impossible to undo this “upgrade”....

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