{"id":12960,"date":"2015-11-30T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2023-03-20T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:35:13","slug":"done-with-icloud-photo-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/done-with-icloud-photo-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Done With iCloud Photo Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Hackett<\/a> (comments<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Over the week of Thanksgiving, I decided to give it another try. I hadn’t really spent any time with Photos.app since OS X El Capitan, and I had heard a lot of good things from people I know about it.<\/p>\n

I imported my photos and uploaded my 70GB photo library to iCloud. Everything went very smoothly, so I turned on iCloud Photo Library on my iPad.<\/p>\n

Aaaaaand it all exploded.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I will probably<\/em> keep my photos in Photos.app, but I won’t be uploading them to Apple’s service again. Photo management needs to be bulletproof, and iCloud has proved, yet again, to be far from it. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Update (2015-12-10): Christopher Sardegna<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Nearly all of the old photos I have in my iCloud Photo Library look like this. Great images, all gone. Destroyed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Justin Searls<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My iCloud Photo Library is now so big that metadata\/thumbnails can’t be loaded onto a 16GB iOS. Has to be disabled<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update (2016-12-13): Jonathan<\/a> Wight<\/a>:<\/p>\n

People were asking me if using Photos.app for storing all<\/em> my photos was working for me?<\/p>\n

Well today it ate them all. So no.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

300 GB of photos no longer accessible in Photos.app. Fortunately I have many backups (not crazy!)<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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