If it's an operating system folder, as opposed to a Photos app folder, then it won't work. The iCloud Photo Library syncing is for photos and videos in the Photos app, and it will preserve the folder and album structure which will be synced across all your devices. Copying operating system folders to iCloud Drive will not sync them with your devices.
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If it's an operating system folder, as opposed to a Photos app folder, then it won't work. The iCloud Photo Library syncing is for photos and videos in the Photos app, and it will preserve the folder and album structure which will be synced across all your devices. Copying operating system folders to iCloud Drive will not sync them with your devices.
We don't really know if that exploit with the password screen was or wasn't used--just because someone somewhere said it wasn't, doesn't mean that's the case. There certainly was an exploit on Apple's side, whether or not it plaid a big role in all of this doesn't change that fact. There was also the part that 2-factor authentication didn't apply to a lot of things, like iCloud backups, which could have gotten in the way of a lot of these hacks. Those items have been corrected since, but the fact that they were in play at the time means that there was something or lack of something that should have been there on Apple's side that contributed to it all.
If you ever took the time to stop by anonib, you would know that the unlimited attempts allowed was the main reason they were able to gain access to the icloud accounts. None of celebs were victims of phishing scams. Apple only started increasing user privacy after all the heat they took from the leaked photos.
OMG! Now let's look at Apple's iCloud terms and agreement:
Wait a second. Looks familiar.
It helps if you leave some of your cherry-picked quotes in the correct context:
Again, let's look at Apple's similar policy:
A few years back I used to post privacy policy quotes that had people up in arms about how terrible they were. That's because they assumed the quotes were from Google. But they were from Apple. Most people have never bothered to read Apple's policies, and would be surprised at what they allow.
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Apparently they don't need to now
it's all here in black and white... (...or rather blue and red.)The only place Apple does do good in on iOS 8, when they encypt the phone, and Google does the same on their latest models..
It's only once u start using the cloud, do things change.
It turns quickly to that any time it's something about a service from Google or Facebook.Funny how it went from a thread about photo service to privacy issues. Gotta love the forums that get off topic.
Funny how it went from a thread about photo service to privacy issues. Gotta love the forums that get off topic.
It's always amazing how people who don't want to use something, try to find arguments to stop others from using it as well.
And worse, make up bogus reasons.
Funny how it went from a thread about photo service to privacy issues. Gotta love the forums that get off topic.
obviously it went that way just because its a google product but i would say that the free unlimited from google and 1 TB (=unlimited for most) from flickr etc requires us to stop and think a little bit. pretty much everything we deemed important and personal decades ago we are willing to store at some server farm today.
And in the process often stand behind some other similar services that they imply are somehow better in those respects, but usually really aren't.
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That's the internet.
Haven't used it long enough to know for sure...but here's my first thought...
There's a desktop uploader that looks to monitor specified folders and upload anything new. I might need to redo my aperture library to reference external files, but if I did then I could just point the uploader to that folder and it 'should' work.
obviously. but i just think it requires more forethought by users and not just clicking "accept".
perhaps. i think for the average person its more of a detachment and making them dependant on a selection of very few companies. then there is the fact that we as users have little idea how much "we" and our info are really worth.
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There's a Mac Google Photos app ( https://photos.google.com/apps -- click 'Desktop Uploader').
When you've downloaded this, you can select what folders you want backed up (including iPhoto Library).
Also, if you log in to Google Drive from a browser on your Mac, it should ask if you want to include Google Photos into your Google Drive folder (if you have it on your Mac -- Similar to Dropbox). This means that all photos uploaded from your iPhone will be on your computer.
If you are logged into Google that just shows you the ad profile they have built about you. It's really quite vague and not at all as invasive as most people here would have you believe.
Eg: http://mashable.com/2012/01/25/google-cookies/
This is actually incorrect. The iPhoto library is not seen by the OS as a folder, but instead as a package, which is treated as a file....so I doubt the uploader would work on its contents. iPhoto, as well as Aperture, can be configured to keeps its contents outside of the library...but this is not how it's setup by default.
Log into Google? For what?
And I doubt that profile shows everything they have on their customers.
Personally, I'm not as fired up about Google or any other private sector company having something as I am about the NSA having everything or even something. And if Google has it, the NSA has it in turn, according to Julian Assange. If the feds didn't exist as we know them today, I'd be a bit more relaxed around Google or any other company, but I still have a problem with any company knowing anything about me, regardless of the feds or not. I value my privacy.
I know what you're saying, but Google has worked around that. When you select 'iPhoto Library', it uploads what's in your iPhoto Library. NOTE: I did not 'Add' the iPhoto Library to the list -- It was there automatically.
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and by library does that mean just the photos or every album, smart album, folders, sets etc?
My God you're right! Just installed on a separate Mac and it auto added Aperture and iPhoto. No sign of internal organization being saved...but I'll keep my fingers crossed...350 items uploading.
Sounds like staying away from the Internet would be the way to go. In fact from almost any communication method and probably down to even not having power or water supplied by anyone.
Very true, especially on that last item. Power/water usage can and has been used to develop spurious drug warrants against people and result in no-knock raids, sometimes resulting in severe injury, loss of life, and confiscation of property, all at no risk to the "professionals" involved.