{"id":25082,"date":"2019-04-23T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25082"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:29:10","slug":"backing-up-shared-icloud-photo-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/23\/backing-up-shared-icloud-photo-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up Shared iCloud Photo Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tyler.io\/backing-up-shared-icloud-photo-albums-and-where-to-find-them-on-disk\/\">Tyler Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tyler.io\/backing-up-shared-icloud-photo-albums-and-where-to-find-them-on-disk\/\">\n<p>Ideally, Photos.app on Mac (or iOS) would have a preference to automatically import shared items taken by <em>other<\/em> people &#x2013; and then those would feed into Google Photos. But that doesn&rsquo;t exist. I could manually save-to-my-library new items as they&rsquo;re shared, but that&rsquo;s error prone and not scalable.<\/p>\n<p>Also, what about the 2,000+ previously shared photos? I thought I would be clever and just select-all on my Mac and drag them into my main library, but after doing a few quick tests I realized Photos.app isn&rsquo;t smart enough to not duplicate the photos <em>I<\/em> took and shared when importing. (This is likely due to Apple scaling-down and stripping out metadata of shared items.) And there&rsquo;s no way to sort by &ldquo;other people&rdquo; or build a smart album of &ldquo;photos taken by other people&rdquo; to filter out your own images when importing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Hall: Ideally, Photos.app on Mac (or iOS) would have a preference to automatically import shared items taken by other people &#x2013; and then those would feed into Google Photos. But that doesn&rsquo;t exist. I could manually save-to-my-library new items as they&rsquo;re shared, but that&rsquo;s error prone and not scalable. Also, what about the 2,000+ [&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":"2019-04-23T19:29:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"b6597e4d-2e64-4cf0-818e-f5d8d8d14793","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-23T19:29:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Atll-TS5kTPCBjvXY2NFHkw","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":[146,1142,30,1609,927],"class_list":["post-25082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-photos-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25082","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=25082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25083,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25082\/revisions\/25083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}