Big updates for @ente Photos in January 👌

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Today I learned that you can’t just replace a photo in Apple Photos (on Mac) with another file, ripping all the references to the photo alive.
But there is a workaround. If you have a photo editor - in my case Pixelmator Pro - that can edit photos from your library, you can import the new version as a new layer and delete the old one. Save it back to Photos and you’ve got what you want.

#TIL #Apple #photos #ApplePhotos

I’ve cut out Meta entirely since ages and avoid Google where possible, but Apple Photos is the end boss. It’s not about replacing the storage of my photos, it’s the seamless experience of organizing, non-destructive editing, and syncing that’s hard to replace.
What’s the actual alternative that doesn’t feel like a downgrade?

If you’ve found a setup that works without sacrificing the seamless experience, please let me know.
@DonDahlmann @pallenberg

#DIDit #ApplePhotos #PhotoManagement #iCloud

Hey, Mac peeps, help me help someone out! (I’m thinking of @glennf or @joekissell as likely candidates for answering this, or might know someone who can.)

Please boost!

I have an ex-editor of mine (when I wrote for Australian Macworld, great guy) who has asked me a Mac question, and while I don’t know the answer, you might! Here goes…

Hey, I have a curly Mac question that I can’t find an answer to. Hoping you can help.

I have thousands of photos in my Photos library. Way too many to keep locally, so I use iCloud. The way that’s supposed to work is that there are low-res thumbnails on the local disk and full-res originals are kept in the cloud and downloaded only when you need them.

All good.

I’m doing a project (posters for my child’s 21st) that involves uploading thousands of photos from my library to Canva. For many of them, I’m doing a bit of editing first for red-eye, etc. So I’ve downloaded hundreds (so far) of originals from iCloud.

At first this went pretty smoothly.

Now, however, my Mac is screaming that it’s running out of space, Photos is returning unknown errors and the project has ground to a halt.

My hypothesis is that even though I’ve finished the editing and uploaded to Canva — and therefore don’t need them anymore — the full-res originals are still sitting on my local drive.

Do you know how long Photos hangs on to those originals before syncing them back and leaving me with drive space? Do you know if there’s a way to make it happen sooner?

The obvious solution is to move the library to an external drive with tonnes of space. And I will do that. But it’s a band-aid.

#MacHelp #ApplePhotos #AppleiCloud #MacSupport #MacQuestion #MacQuestions

Um, no. That’s not a reptile.

#AppleAI #Apple #ApplePhotos

Best Apple Photos replacement on Linux?

Must have: view photos based off geotags, view all photos chronologically (adding to the list cause somehow some of the options out there literally don’t do this), and the UI must not look like ass (looking at you DigiKam).

Nice to have: People detection, “Smart Albums” (as Apple calls them).

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Also, any suggestions on importing photos from Photos to $newApp while preserving the photos marked as Favorites?

#ApplePhotos #linux #asahilinux #fedora