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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by teekert on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:39AM (#28354094)
If you're in the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone, some iPads and a Macbook, you sort of roll into it. Is it worth it? Not sure, it's sure easy and just works. But you're on your own when you try to interface with your data in "non conventional" ways.

I myself use NextCloud for everything, I recently moved from Android to iOS and it's nice to see most things working... except that NextCloud has issues making previews from .heic pictures (or I should say heic picture containers containing heif images coded in hevc :s), and so the drama starts again. It's always plug and pray outside the Apple ecosystem, always ymmv.

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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by MereInterest on Monday August 30, 2021 @06:47AM (#28354376)
I like your quotes around "non conventional", as everything about storing files in a directory is the traditional and conventional way to store files.
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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by teekert on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:49AM (#28364713)
Haha, yes it felt wrong subconsciously to call it non-conventional. Now that you mention it, I totally agree that it is Apple who in the games of doing things the non-conventional way. The opposite of the Unix philosophy. "Take all things, throw them together and make sure they only work in one, blessed, linear way."
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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by MereInterest on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @07:20AM (#28366427)
Every once in a while I'll make an external backup of my parents' photo collection. Every single time, it's a royal pain to figure out where Apple has decided to put the iPhoto directory. There's no UI that points to it, no settings to configure the save location. It's like you're supposed to forget that these are your pictures to access as you please, and instead treat them as iPhoto's pictures, only to be accessed in the blessed interface.
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