PSA: Getting out of Google Photos is both easy and super rewarding if you can run Immich and use Google Takeout. It’s also better than Google Photos.
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Depending on the device that uploaded the media and your country, they may have stripped GPS metadata from your media. I've also had captured-at times get changed randomly (!!) from your original media.
If possible, pull your media directly off your smartphone to make sure there are no shenanigans going on.
(These were painful discoveries made while trying to help support my PhotoStructure users)
I've written open source for several decades, and certainly enjoyed the spoils of open source, but I've also seen a ton of bad behavior. Keeping it closed source certainly is not a guarantee that I avoid intellectual property theft or license violations, but at least I'm not just one agent prompt away from someone rebranding and reselling what I've worked full-time on for more than a decade.
Turned out not to materially impact our efforts. But it felt like a gut punch at the time.
AI enables this for closed source. Reputation and community are durable differentiators nowadays. I hope your 10 years of investment provides that.
Your experience would make for excellent feedback for me if you're willing, email hello@ my domain name if you want complementary PLUS!
You don't need an anthropomorphized computer program running on trillion dollar companies' servers just to run `rclone copy`.
You're not authorising CC to access your photos.
Claude Code is used to prepare the rclone run.
What do you mean that by using cc you're handing over your data (presumably synced photos) you're handing over your data"?
If you genuinely believe that "just use claude code" means any of the things you wrote, you are definitely not careful enough to take the precautions necessary to contain commercial spyware. Claude Code would read your credentials and probe your files to "see if everything is set up correctly" and you won't think twice about it.
And again, all this just to run `rclone copy`.
OK, explain, what to the "just use Claude code" means in your opinion.
From your words it's literally using the coding harness to access Google Photos and fopy/backup these photos/videos, still within the Claude code.
Is this what you'd do? Because that's the only way I'd understand someone to go on such rant.
I see you didn't get the message. It's not about opinions. Don't add a bunch of extra meanings to suit your argument.
The original comment was:
> just use claude code to use rclone on a server and let it run automatically, its great and easy
First, it says "use claude code to use rclone." It's very simple English, yet it directly contradicts your claim that "you're not even using Claude code to run rclone for you."
> Because that's the only way I'd understand someone to go on such rant.
Yeah, no wonder given the above.
Going back to the original comment, it says it's easy. Easier than not using Claude Code, which is typing `rclone copy <source> .`. Every justification that you pulled out of thin air is more complicated than that.
> Is this what you'd do?
Again, you're not reading. Read my original comment. And the reply to your comment. I wouldn't use Claude Code in this situation. I'd just type `rclone copy <source> .`.
Maybe try Claude Code one day, then you'll recognise what that phrase was actually about.
All the best! You must need it with such attitude to life.
Just calm down. You seem to be personally offended at the mere suggestion that Claude Code isn't a good fit for everything, or that it's not even more trustworthy than Google. That's just a fact, not a "rant." If you feel the impulse to throw a tantrum because of that, I genuinely urge you to revisit your relationship with your cloud subscription because it's definitely not healthy for you, or the people around you.
Whereas Google drive does not have this problem.
Has the situation changed?
If you have enough disk space it should be a problem, you also get about a week to download the archives
I've had limited success with Memories on Nextcloud.
Chefs kiss
I think the main thing is storage speed matters which is why a mini pc with an ssd runs circles around a raspberry pi running off a microsd card.
Maybe I should rope some NAS for just the Immich setup.
PhotoStructure runs everywhere (laptops, desktops, macOS, Windows and Linux), libraries are portable across machines and OSes, there's a generous, usable free tier, and setup takes about three minutes. If you have any questions hop into our discord, we're a friendly bunch.
The multi-day wait while they prepare the takeout for download, though... I have forgotten about more takeout exports than I have actually downloaded.