Related: does anyone know of a way to delete the original videos on trimmed ones? Apparently all edits to videos are non-destructive, so the 10-minute video that I trimmed to 2 seconds still takes up 8gb.

Incredible. I have such a hacked-together system to get my iCloud Photos backed up to an external drive while not filling my main laptop drive. This would be even better.

For those of you on Android / PC-Mac - Syncthing is an excellent tool for P2P syncing between multiple devices (it works over NAT and IPV6 too!).

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If you are already in the progress of downloading all of your photos, this is a great time to consider completely switching over to Immich.

It's great!

Why did Apple invent this abomination of a system for storing photos?

We have had file systems for decades. They work well. They sync trivially.

There is something similar to Google Takeout for Apple Photos. Recently used it to download thousands of photos.

Anyone got any tips for programmatically downloading photos in a shared album?

iCloud Photos.app seems to not be able to show some photos

But Photometor.app (owned by Apple) can...

So that's a little annoying... I wish I had more visibility on photos not showing up in Photos.app, and what it is that stops it showing them

You know you only need to do a GDPR request to Apple (dedicated page), select images and you get a download link after a few hours