![]() ![]() Automatic sync of photos and videos across iOS, Android, Mac and Windows, multiple redundant copies of the entire library called "vaults", including both local drives, external drives, NAS and also cloud providers - all seamlessly sync'd automatically. For anyone looking for local self-hosted photo and video collections, check out Mylio ( It's got most of the magic of what I loved about Picasa, with many "next gen" features that Picasa never had. Five Docker containers and no cross platform sync? What? The self-hosted solutions described here seem a little too "bare metal" and threadbare of important features for my tastes. As mentioned in the article and by others in the thread, or it's impossible to know when they might go belly-up or change their business model and then you're potentially at their mercy. Since it's untimely death, I looked far and wide for alternatives since I absolutely positively did not want to depend on any cloud service for my precious family photos. Alas it was yet another promising product acquired and then killed by Google. It was amazing for those wanting 100% control of their photos and videos. Local OS-based file and folder management, powerful editing capabilities, decent face detection, easy cloud-based sharing of pics/albums with a serviceable web UI (via Google), excellent library navigation and instantaneous filtering/search - even with multi-terabyte libraries. And certainly avoid relying on social networks to keep your photos (knowing they'll reduce the quality of old photos to save space, not including the myriad of privacy issues).įirst post after creating my forum account, so please be kind if I mess it up. ![]() I share the sentiments of what others have said - if one can afford it, do both local and cloud backups. No point in talking about my film archiving here but for my digital photos and film scans, I just use Lightroom and then back it up in several places (including on tape though I don't expect the average consumer will be doing that) both onsite and offsite. It's just a weird business space of organizing photos where some vast percentage are ones folks will never look at again but want to keep. I do fully expect I'm in the minority though. The idea of having to use machine learning to organize things, while cool, kinda exposes the point I'm trying to make here. Film aside, there's something to be said for taking fewer, better photos. That makes organizing them way easier - not just because there's fewer of them, but because they're all worth something and more specific and thus easier to organize. One of the benefits of going back to film for me is I take far fewer photos, but far FAR more of them are important. I think the one thing worth mentioning is maybe we all take too many photos also. ![]()
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