Photography Asked on November 2, 2021
I freely admit that this has probably been asked a million times, but I’m going mad so sorry I’ll ask it again.
My situation is drawn in below graph: link to graphviz code
How can I obtain a single source of truth that:
The solutions depends on your usage and acceptability to pay fees.
If you are a heavy photographer, you'll end up having more than 200 GB of data, so that means you must rely on the 2 TB plan, which is 10€ /$ per month, or 120 per year.
You might consider this is too much. As a consequence, your only option is to have 2 sets : one which is the "source of truth" with all backups, one with is a selection of the things you want to keep with you at anytime.
So that supposes usually you make regularly a selection of what you consider your best pictures and copy them from a set to the other. You can then use Photos & iCloud to have mobile access and share your pictures with friends
Answered by Hugues on November 2, 2021
I think there are a lot of solutions, but I can't say I know the best one. As you use Apple devices mostly I'll describe the full Apple solution below.
You indicate that this seems like a bad idea. But given that you use Apple devices mainly I think it's the path of least resistance (neglecting cost).
Please note that I don't have mobile Apple devices, nor do I have a (shared or paid) iCloud account, so I might miss some steps or limitations. I've just pulled it together from internet resources. In the comments it became clear that it might not be possible (anymore) to have multiple iCloud accounts. This recent-ish article indicates you can, but I unfortunately cannot test it.
iCloud photos
account on all iPhones and iPads. It seems you have to set the iCloud photos
as your main account.iCloud James
and iCloud wife
accounts on the respective iPhones. For this you have to add iCloud James
and iCloud wife
as a "regular" account (like Google, Outlook, etc...).
Now all i-devices can sync and view each others photos. This answer on Apple.SE describes more or less above solution.
Only portable device left is the DSLR. I'm afraid you'll have to manually transfer those photos from the memory card into the iCloud photos
account.
iCloud photos
account on the laptop.iCloud photos
account, making that account the single source of truth.James
and wife
iCloud accounts, allowing you to cancel or scale down those accounts.iCloud photos
account deletes all photos by mistake, this mistake will be synced across all devices leading to the loss of all photos.
iCloud photos
account. This can e.g. be a combination of your old laptop, some back-up software and a large external drive. See also this previous question regarding backupAnswered by Saaru Lindestøkke on November 2, 2021
Your best bet is a cloud based one. Pros: You and others can get at the pictures from all sorts of devices and locations. It would be browser based which is a good flexible way to go.
Cons: It should take some time to upload. To solve that you could convert cloud versions to smaller upload-able sizes, get an external hard drive that will work on any computer, and archive the masters.
Answered by JustJohn on November 2, 2021
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