Mastodawn

I have no idea if I can trust iCloud Photos. https://pxlnv.com/blog/i-regret-the-blood-pact-i-have-made-with-icloud-photos/

I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made With iCloud Photos

Sometimes, I do not recognize a trap until I am already in it. Photos in iCloud is one such situation. When Apple launched iCloud Photo Library in 2014, I was all-in. Not only is it where I store the photos I take on my iPhone, it is where I keep the ones from my digital […]

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Will Richardson 3d ago

@nickheer before you try and store your library on an external drive, it's also not sunshine and roses: https://willhbr.net/2025/12/26/stuck-in-a-photo-management-factory/

Help I'm Stuck in a Photo Management Factory and I Can't Get Out — Will Richardson

I feel obliged to include a photo, since this post is about photography. In 2019 I got into this whole photography business and used my iPad for photo editing in Photomator. This went pretty well until I started to shoot raw photos instead of JPEGs, and quickly ran into the meagre 250GB internal storage limit of the iPad. At the time I wrote about how limitations of the iPad make using it as an exclusive photo-editing device impractical. Basically the...

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Nick Heer

@willhbr Thanks! Luckily (?) I went through that process many years ago, and the drive is connected to my iMac, so I don’t need to worry (too much) about ejecting it.

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Will Richardson 2d ago

@nickheer please share what you end up doing once you're off iCloud, i want to escape the system I've built for myself, but not sure what to do if Photomator isn't an option anymore