#MYLIO VS APPLE PHOTOS MAC#

The method tries to take away the focus on folder hierarchies in order to allow for a retrieval process which is dominated by recognizing tags instead of remembering storage paths. I did develop a file management method that is independent of a specific tool and a specific operating system, avoiding any lock-in effect. Just be careful with lock-in situations before you enter them. Last time I looked, I came to the conclusion that every photo that went into iPhoto is lost without iPhoto which means it is lost in the long run anyway.

) and with file names that do allow re-finding outside of iPhoto. Including your descriptions, your transformations (rotating, cropping. If you want to trust iPhoto (a great app I'd never ever use), you should do a test-run and see how you get your photos out of it. If you still prefer using the cloud, you should make sure you know the implications of that decision. I'd never trust my photos to the cloud because you can't control the data in the cloud. TLDR Just want my photos all in one place, backed up in a cloud, and easy to organize into albums by life event (rather than by camera and filenames). Is GooglePhotos an option for what I'm trying to achieve? I am already a GoogleDrive user. Also I'm not the biggest fan of Adobe, I've always felt like their products are a bit sluggish and crashy.ĭigikam comes up but the lack of a cloud and phone solution is kind of a dealbreaker for me. I've used it in the past as I used to shoot photography more seriously, but nowadays I really just want something where I can look at albums and share with friends. Adobe Lightroom comes up often but for me it's super overkill. That said, I was searching older posts for solutions. I wish there was a selective use for iCloud, like you could select an image or batch of images and check/uncheck 'make available on iPhone.' I don't need everything I've ever shot on my phone. If I wanted to start adding and sorting the 50k+ photos I have from the past two decades using tons of different cameras and formats, it will also add all of them to my iPhone which is overkill. The problem I have with Apple's Photos+iCloud solution is it's all or nothing. However I also want to keep everything backed up into a cloud, for general backup reasons but also making it easier to share photos with family.

#MYLIO VS APPLE PHOTOS MAC#

I would sometimes organize by the camera I used and put into folders with the date, but using MacOS' finder there's no good, efficient way to look at photos and organize into 'albums' that I can both name logically and see what's inside with immediacy.Ĭall me basic but I do like Apple Photos for both Mac & iOS as it's clean and easy to use and create albums etc. So here's my problem – as I'm cleaning up old drives I have thousands of photos spread out (and duplicated) across all of the drives, with no rhyme or reason.

Mylio vs apple photos