{"id":19044,"date":"2017-09-28T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19044"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:30:22","slug":"time-machine-vs-photos-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/28\/time-machine-vs-photos-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine vs. Photos.app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robservatory.com\/apple-says-dont-use-time-machine-if-you-take-lots-of-photos\/\">Rob Griffiths<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/robservatory.com\/apple-says-dont-use-time-machine-if-you-take-lots-of-photos\/\">\n<p>In a nutshell, Apple recommends that if you&rsquo;ve moved the System Photo Library to an external drive&mdash;as nearly anyone who takes lots of pictures will have done, given space-limited solid-state internal drives&mdash;you do not use Time Machine on that drive. Not just &ldquo;don&rsquo;t back up the Photos Library folder with Time Machine,&rdquo; but &ldquo;don&rsquo;t back up the entire drive with Time Machine.&rdquo; Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I know Apple&rsquo;s answer to the second question is &ldquo;You shouldn&rsquo;t be storing photos locally, they should all be in the cloud.&rdquo; But if you have a huge collection of photos and videos, and\/or if you&rsquo;ve got slow or limited internet, this is not a realistic option.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also not a very reliable one. Aside from not really being a backup, iCloud Photo Library doesn&rsquo;t even sync reliably. My mother has four devices that are supposedly syncing, but some of the photos don&rsquo;t make it to some of the devices. Each device gets <em>most<\/em> of each batch of new photos, so at a glance it looks like it worked, but upon closer inspection some of the photos are missing. No errors are reported.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Griffiths: In a nutshell, Apple recommends that if you&rsquo;ve moved the System Photo Library to an external drive&mdash;as nearly anyone who takes lots of pictures will have done, given space-limited solid-state internal drives&mdash;you do not use Time Machine on that drive. Not just &ldquo;don&rsquo;t back up the Photos Library folder with Time Machine,&rdquo; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,1142,30,1529,927,216],"class_list":["post-19044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-photos-app","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19045,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044\/revisions\/19045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}