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Re:Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone by em-bee on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:01PM (#40385578)
copying and renaming files would be an immediate fail criteria. there is no way that i am going to let it copy and rename 1TB of photos.

but you say it can also use external libraries? so it does not copy those?

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Re:Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone by selcuka on Friday May 17, 2024 @01:44AM (#40386756)
> but you say it can also use external libraries? so it does not copy those?

Yes, it only renames files automatically sync'd from your phone. My understanding is it creates a separate metadata file for each external file, but doesn't touch the actual files in an external library.

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