I use LR to manage my 'proper' photos, but I'd also like to use it to archive and manage casual photos I've taken on my iPhone. All my photos are stored on an external drive. Photos.app is synced with iCloud, with the system set to 'Optimize Mac Storage' - most files aren't stored locally.
I really want a solution that does:
- Keep my iCloud/Photos.app settings as is, I very frequently need to access photos taken on my phone while I'm away from my external photos drive. I also don't have space on the system drive to keep copies of all the photos locally.
- Have a backup of all iCloud photos on the external drive. Updated periodically.
- Auto upload these to LR, in folders sorted monthly.
-All this automatically done every n-days or soonest when web connection and external drive are present.
- I dont need the duplicate files to be synced with changes made via iPhone photos app (i.e. deleted/edits) as I usually keep on top of this pretty well, and I can manage this in LR later.
I use CCC to perform various backups when some relevant drives are connected. I use Automator and Hazel to manage a few other housekeeping things on the computer, so I can figure out many of the steps in achieving what I need.
What is the standard behaviour for Photos.app when set to optimize storage? If it always downloads most recent 50, 100, etc or most recent 7 days, 1 month, of photos, then I can run a script to open the App every n-days, then possibly use Hazel to discover new files (in the Photos.library, not sure how Hazel works with catalogs?), then the rest is easy. Any ideas?
I really want a solution that does:
- Keep my iCloud/Photos.app settings as is, I very frequently need to access photos taken on my phone while I'm away from my external photos drive. I also don't have space on the system drive to keep copies of all the photos locally.
- Have a backup of all iCloud photos on the external drive. Updated periodically.
- Auto upload these to LR, in folders sorted monthly.
-All this automatically done every n-days or soonest when web connection and external drive are present.
- I dont need the duplicate files to be synced with changes made via iPhone photos app (i.e. deleted/edits) as I usually keep on top of this pretty well, and I can manage this in LR later.
I use CCC to perform various backups when some relevant drives are connected. I use Automator and Hazel to manage a few other housekeeping things on the computer, so I can figure out many of the steps in achieving what I need.
What is the standard behaviour for Photos.app when set to optimize storage? If it always downloads most recent 50, 100, etc or most recent 7 days, 1 month, of photos, then I can run a script to open the App every n-days, then possibly use Hazel to discover new files (in the Photos.library, not sure how Hazel works with catalogs?), then the rest is easy. Any ideas?
