Escaping the iCloud roach motel

[JKoopmans]

@JohnAtl

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That was my experience as well. I finally gave up because there’s just no normal way to get photos out.
As a solution I had nextcloud sync all photos over overnight to a year/month folder structure and have disabled Photo sync in iCloud now. Did have to prevent the iPhone from “going to sleep” but it did transfer all 100 Gb’s over and now I have a photo library I control Phito management and syncing is now split between nextcloud andphotoprism and with the library already synced I’ve had no more issues

[pantulis]

@Christian

I feel as if user interfaces have mutated into mine fields with hidden features I did not know about in the first place.

Those are UX bugs because discoverability is key. I agree that Discourse, being excellent in many ways, dropped the ball here. Perhaps this is intentional and reveals the opinion that this is considered a power user feature and making this more visible would make newbie users in many forums begin new threads instead of simply replying. But again I consider that another solution should have been provided.

[karlnyhus]

@pantulis

Perhaps this is intentional and reveals the opinion that this is considered a power user feature and making this more visible would make newbie users in many forums begin new threads instead of simply replying.

That’s what I was wondering. And do we all have access to this feature? Special types of access seem to be granted as revealed in user profiles.

[OogieM]

@zkarj

Despite being basic, it also manages to miss the mark on being intuitive, too.

I think it kinda depends. I ignored it as well but then I had the same revelation as @webwalrus

@webwalrus

Markdown is actually derived from the way that people were already typing on BBS systems and the early Internet.

Once I realized that and scrolled my fingers back to the WELL days I and markdown get along fine.

@JohnAtl

Decided to export my media from Photos as a backup,

Have you considered or tested PhotoSync? If the photos are still on your phone then it’s great for getting them out intact and into a structure where you can do something else. in my case I then index them using Lightroom and move the files to my Synology server.

[karlnyhus]

@OogieM

Have you considered or tested PhotoSync?

Sounds great! Almost too good to be true. However, the existence of Airdrop may be all that I need. We’ll see. I would be happy to lose the last remnant of dependance on the Photos app or iCloud for my camera work!

[pantulis]

Well it seems that there is some discourse about that in Discourse itself. I will try to stay away from that rabbit hole

[Ulli]

@zkarj

If Ulysses were to let me redefine the markup, there are 3 things I would change instantly because they make no sense to me. I would possibly change others, too.

At least, you could redefine the “output” via CSS…

[MevetS]

I use Image Capture. Plug in the iPhone to my Mac, fire up Image Capture, select the iPhone, select the images, drag and drop to a folder on my Mac. Done.

Then off to Photo Mechanic Plus to cull, keyword, and catalog.

[karlnyhus]

@MevetS

Plug in the iPhone to my Mac, fire up Image Capture

I never remember that Image Capture exists! It sounds better than Airdrop. And, I already have Photo Mechanic for getting photos off of SD cards. Thanks!

[Bmosbacker]

@tf2

Happy to expound if it’s ever helpful!

Thanks for the kind reply. What app have you settled on for professional notes (meetings, projects and the like)?

[ibuys]

I think @drdrang made the case for plain text better than I ever could over a decade ago with his “Text files and me” series of posts.

• Text files and me - Part 1 - All this
• Text files and me - Part 2 - All this
• Text files and me - Part 3 - All this
• Text files and me - Part 3.5 - All this
• Text files and me IV - BBEdit and TextMate - All this
• Text files and me V - Markdown - All this

I don’t believe him to be a zealot though, I believe I’ve heard him talk about using Apple Notes to get things done on the go. Personally, I generally only use markdown and pdf, and avoid anything storing anything I care about in roach motels. Apple Notes is an outlier, but I also make backups of it every now and then, to plain text.