{"id":25310,"date":"2019-05-20T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25310"},"modified":"2019-07-08T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:53:11","slug":"beware-icloud-video-syncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/beware-icloud-video-syncing\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware iCloud Video Syncing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Hall<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Get home, back on WiFi, start uploading everything to iCloud and Google Photos. After an hour or two everything’s synced.<\/p>\n

Problem: All videos, of any length, stutter, stall, and skip frames in both Photos.app (macOS) and Google Photos on every Mac I try.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

This is a core competency of iOS that should never, ever fucking break for any reason. Apple markets iPhone’s camera as a top selling point – if not THE selling point.<\/p>\n

Lucky for me, I’m tech savvy enough to know about Image Capture.app buried inside macOS’s Utilities folder. So I give it one last try using that to transfer the corrupted videos manually off my phone and into Photos.app and Google Photos.<\/p>\n

It works. My memories are safe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wow, I guess I need to check all our family videos now. It’s possible I’ve been backing up damaged versions, and the good copies would be lost if I pruned our iCloud Photo Library to save space. Hopefully they weren’t already lost when my wife upgraded her iPhone last year. This is not the sort of thing that can be recovered from a backup because iOS cloud backups don’t include the contents of the Photos library if you’re using cloud syncing.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n