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photo storage

  1. SalisburySam

    iCloud How does one get photos forever off of iCloud?

    I want to use my M4 Mac mini’s attached storage for all photos/videos and not iCloud. I sync from two iPhone13minis, one iPadAir(4thGen) and one iPadPro(4thGen) to the Mac mini so do not need iCloud syncing. The support docs and threads I’ve read do not seem to address this specific issue...
  2. JohnMaldaner

    Setting Up New Mac Mini with old iMac Data

    I have a 2012 iMac that I am soon to replace with a M2 Mac Mini. I, back up my iMac with CCC and have been wondering how I'm going to get the data to the new setup. I have partitioned the HD on my iMac, one partition for me as the User and the other for my wife. The only thing she has on her...
  3. purdnost

    Online Photo Storage Solution That Doesn’t Convert HEIC

    I’m looking for an online-based media storage solution that will accommodate uncompressed and unconverted files including HEIC and RAW. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them. Smugmug looked like a great choice, but they convert HEIC files to JPEG.
  4. purdnost

    How Do You Archive Your Photos and Videos?

    I have close to 200k photos and videos that I would like to be able to easily access anytime, as opposed to keeping them all on an external drive where I have them, but never look at them. I also like the idea of having a backup, should anything ever happen to my local drive. So far, the...