{"id":27211,"date":"2019-11-06T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27211"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:43:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:43:41","slug":"catalina-no-longer-caches-shared-photos-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/catalina-no-longer-caches-shared-photos-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalina No Longer Caches Shared Photos Locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tyler.io\/gone\/\">Tyler Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tyler.io\/gone\/\">\n<p>So, I looked, and, sure enough, that <code>sharedstreams<\/code> folder is gone. But where?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ok. That&rsquo;s great. It actually makes <em>more<\/em> sense to have shared photos also live inside your Photos.app library instead of somewhere random in <code>~\/Library<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Of the 112 GB my shared albums previously took up, only 250 MB (MB!!!) are cached locally.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t trust iCloud with my photos. And I&rsquo;m not trying to single out Apple. I don&rsquo;t trust Google Photos either. I don&rsquo;t trust any cloud with my data. I love the convenience of iCloud photo sharing with friends and family and using Google Photos as a source of truth for my own family archives. But I <em>want<\/em> a backup of my data &#x2013; just in case &#x2013; that I&rsquo;m in control of.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The option to &ldquo;Download Originals to this Mac&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t apply to shared photos. So you can&rsquo;t back them up youself, and there&rsquo;s no backup in the cloud. Not only does it no longer download the photos, but it also deleted the ones that had been downloaded by macOS 10.14.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/11\/mail-data-loss-in-macos-10-15\/\">Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/26\/what-time-machine-doesnt-back-up\/\">What Time Machine Doesn&rsquo;t Back Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/23\/backing-up-shared-icloud-photo-albums\/\">Backing Up Shared iCloud Photo Albums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Hall: So, I looked, and, sure enough, that sharedstreams folder is gone. But where? [&#8230;] Ok. That&rsquo;s great. It actually makes more sense to have shared photos also live inside your Photos.app library instead of somewhere random in ~\/Library. [&#8230;] Of the 112 GB my shared albums previously took up, only 250 MB (MB!!!) [&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":"2019-11-06T21:36:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"a8888215-a9a7-4a8e-abac-05a8cd024fb9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-06T21:43:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqIiCFamnSo6rrAWozQJPuQ","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":[146,1016,1142,30,1666,927],"class_list":["post-27211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-datacide","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-photos-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211","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=27211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27224,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211\/revisions\/27224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}