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I need help. I've got this old box! It's from if I had to guess 2006ish... says Systemax 105742636. I'll post photos but I need to know what kind of power supply to buy and then how the heck do I get the photos off of it? I own a laptop ...I have a pc monitor if needed...keyboard etc... just don't know what I'm doing!
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I've been struggling with this situation for a few years now. Every single time I look for solutions, it feels like I'm taking crazy pills and I'm the only person on Earth who is trying to accomplish this, or the only one running into serious issues while trying. It seems like 90% of the time, the solution I find online is something completely unacceptable, stuff like "buy a mac", or switch to android, or "just pay for iCloud perpetually" etc... I'm a stubborn sob, I don't want to pay for iCloud space, I don't want to lose picture quality, I don't want to have my images be in that stupid HEIF image format, I don't even want to temporarily enable iCloud for photos. I want the pictures that are on my iPhone 12 Pro to be moved as-is onto my Windows PC (Windows 10 Pro) where I can manually make back up copies. I'm going to quickly rattle off solutions that I have tried: 1. iCloud Windows Application - I tried this a while ago and was unable to get my photos off the phone, the Windows application is very crap. 2. iCloud Browser Access Download - Downloading my photos (at full resolution in their native format) is difficult enough through their interface, but then removing them from my phone is also difficult and unpredictable. On top of that, iCloud has a very obnoxious strategy for backing up photos. It essentially randomly chooses photos in your collection at random times and uploads them. This strategy makes it impractical for someone who has thousands of photos and very little phone storage space left or free iCloud space. I'd have to remove like 50 random photos at a time and then wait a random amount of time for a random assortment of 50 new pictures to be selected to repeat the process. I've also heard it can take weeks for iCloud to select photos for cloud backup and weeks to remove photos from your phone that you've removed from iCloud manually, which means it would be risky to try to bite the storage cost bullet, try to remove all photos, and then stop paying. The randomization is unpredictable and may drag on for months. 3. Windows Built-in Photo Transfer - Windows has a built-in utility to move or copy photos off of a media device like a phone, and this utility has also failed for the same reason as another method which I'll discuss next. 4. Manual Transfer - good old fashioned; plug the phone via wire directly, navigate to the directory and move the files off myself. Oh boy, this is where the iPhone really gets intense. It took me a while to learn about this, but apparently the iPhone has tons of background processes (I'm guessing like iCloud) which are constantly randomly grabbing the file handles for my pictures, so if one of those processes does that while I am moving a picture off my iPhone, the transfer will fail, and I will then no longer be able to access the iPhone file directories until I restart the iPhone completely. I believe this behavior of the phone is what also prevents the Windows Built-in Photo Transfer tool from completing. Currently, the only way I've been able to get photos or videos off my phone is with the manual transfer, I'm able to get a few images off at a time, then I have to restart the phone, and repeat. It takes an insane amount of time and patience. There was one suggestion I read once that kind of helped a little, apparently if you put the phone into airplane mode it shuts off some (not all) of those background processes I mentioned, and you can get more photos off per session before having to restart the phone again. Ultimately I just want control over my photos and when and how I back it all up. I do not want to use iCloud, and it's not even about the money, it's behavior is completely contrary to my very being. At this point, Apple is effectively holding my photos hostage. The ransom demand is to pay for iCloud storage space for the rest of my life (and worse have to actually use iCloud for photos), or spend many hours of my time and intense frustration every time I want to back up my photos. Everyone I know offline with my circumstance has simply relented, "I just started paying for the iCloud storage space". Last quick note, I want to say I know about the fact that the phone stores some edits you make in unusual formats and such. In short, I don't care about losing the edits, I just want the raw full res image in its native jpg format (that's how the images are stored on the device prior to iCloud). So, are there any other people in the same boat as me? Has anyone found a solution to this or have any suggestions I could try? Am I taking crazy pills?
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Trying to get better about my backup solutions and I'm in the process of exporting pics from Photos (with iCloud Library on if that makes a difference) to multiple external drives for redundancy. TL;DR- is there a way to read asset "numbers", such as asset: 56CDA012-50C8-4065-A1A4-2CF1A22955DF/L0/001 from a Photos Library? To elaborate: In the process, used PowerPhotos (v2) to assist. Took overnight, as I have 1.97 TB of photos, but it gave me a handy little log showing that everything exported except for about 400 some pictures. Settings say in log file " 2022-11-24 20:13:32.286 Starting export of 45572 photos to /Volumes/WD 6TB 1 2022-11-24 20:13:32.286 Settings: folder organization: single folder, file naming: filename, file creation date: photo date, file modification date: photo date, existing files: Keep both, photo export type: unmodified original, format: JPG, quality: high, size: full size, include Live Photo videos: true, include all bursts: true, video quality: h264_1080p, and metadata: date, keywords, title, and caption" I've taken the log (entry="022-11-24 20:15:48.092 An error occurred (-1): PhotoKit returned an error from data request for <PHAssetResource 0x600003f70320> - type: photo, uti: com.canon.cr2-raw-image, size: {3888,2592}, filename: IMG_2167.CR2, asset: 56CDA012-50C8-4065-A1A4-2CF1A22955DF/L0/001: The operation couldn’t be completed. (PHPhotosErrorDomain error -1.)") and stripped it down to just the filenames and determined they are all in sequential order, the ones that are missing. It was nearly solved, but then I realized I had multiple different photos named "IMG_2167" (only 3-4 it seems for each grouping) and I can't seem to tell where the gap is, if there is a gap at all. Now, when I exported them, since there were multiple file names that were the same, it appended a number to some, BUT it did it in a haphazard order (in retrospect I may have been able to change some setting to prevent this). For instance, photos in 2009 are 1838.cr2, 1839 2.cr2, 1040.cr2, 1841 3.cr2 while in 2010 it was 1838 2.cr2, 1839.cr2, 1840 3.cr2, with no seeming reason in increasing the appended number up or down either forward or backward in time (of when the picture was taken). In looking to type this just now, there was a "1850 2.cr2" photo in 2011, with a "1850 4.cr2" in 2009. The missing numbers start at 1838 and end at 2198 (inclusive) and I've sorted the full lot of images both by name and by date taken, and looked around 1836-1837 and 2199-2200 to see if there maybe it was a specific photo project that was missing, but there's absolutely nothing obvious missing when it comes to the files. I have these asset numbers/codes that seem to be attached to each photo, and I was hoping to at least try to use those to see if i could locate the error files in the photo library itself, but i've yet to find anything that resembles that code in the standard info pane. I really don't want to export 45K photos again-any suggestions?
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Hi there, having a strange issue this afternoon and was wondering if anyone had a solution. Tried to open a photo with the default Microsoft Photos App, and I got an error message, so I went into the settings and reset it thinking I could just redownload from the Microsoft Store, but the download is stuck at 715.0 KB of 71.88 MB and won't budge. Already tried restarting, running WSReset.exe, etc. On Windows 10 btw. Anyone had this problem and know a fix? Thanks!
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Hi I am etbms I just setup my new unraid for my home I first installed next cloud on it but not that easy for my family. I would like a solution that have following key point 1. Multiple users support 2. Auto backup 3. Proper gallery experience 4. Proper shareing option and tv casting 5. Face tag or ai recognization 6. Album I just use Synology solution but it's running low storage. I just like a similar solution to Synology photo or Google photo -
Is there a way possible to view photos on an external drive in the photos app without them uploading to my iCloud and wasting my storage. I have an old phone with about 11,000 photos and I am putting them on an external drive however I want an easy way to look through them and enjoy them is there anyway to do that in photos or another app that is able to help that way I don't waste my 50 gigs of iCloud.
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Hi. Planning to get a NAS next year and I was wondering on how does The Synology photo app manage the upload of photos from various members of a family. Is there any way to separate each user's photo pool? I'm thinking more from a phone upload point of view with the dedicated app, I'm afraid it might become a huge sea of pictures indistinguishable what belongs to who.
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I've been using the stock gallery on phone for 2 years on my samsung phone and i had organused pretty everything to a T. All my important documents/photos were in one place and i could easily access them. I had Photos on my device but never opened it and in a bout of boredom and opened to see some of the "smart" feature like image searching and whatnot. Google starts backing up my photos so i just thought it was making a copy of my gallery and then uploading it into the cloud but when i go back to my stock gallery i noticed missing photos and videos and some of my folders had dissapered. It was then i relaized that photos yoinked all my stuff and has thrown all my curation into disarray. Any one know how i can revers this? Is there some kind of "restore" button/option? or do i have to restore everything manually?
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I recently went on a trip and took photos on my phone(REDMI NOTE 8)....so i tried moving it to my pc... i selected the pictures and CUT-PASTED it....it moved a few pics then some catastrophic error message came and then explorer crashed...and all my pics went missing...not in the phone....not in the recycle bin...not in my pc pls help
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Hi, For some time I have been looking for an external drive, however, it seems many have some form of data loss problem caused by a poor quality drive or another variable. Can anybody recommend me a drive, preferably a hdd for long-ish term storage? (Although I may just buy a hdd and transfer it to my new build so it may only be short term.) I am looking to move family photos, program files and other data of which is currently stored on a six-ish year old WD blue 5400rpm hdd. I'm not certain, but I have a suspicion the drive is due to bite the dust soon so whichever drive I transfer to needs to be of good quality as it will be the only backup, for now. I only need 500gb-1tb so I don't have much need of a nas or anything similar for this particular backup. My maximum budget is up to £100 as I am in the process of building a new pc and do not have much room for additional expenses; due to this it would be preferable that it's below my maximum . Thanks for the help in advance, Stay safe, Lex.
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Well, we all saw it coming... Google Photo infinite storage had to end some day, that day was las week and I am not paying for more cloud storage like most sensible people. I still haven't decided what to do but it will involve a home NAS, not now, but next year for sure. Meanwhile I have to keep storing my wife's and my photos somewhere, Google Photo will hold for sometime but I need to start getting in the habit of storing my photos and videos in one single place, possibly at home this time. I started re-considering iPhoto on MacOS, I have an old Mac with a time machine backup routine that will give me some peace of mind for the moment but it was a very long time ago I last used it. Getting to my point, how is iPhoto working these days? Last time I remember once I got my photos into iPhoto I could choose the Albums to sync, via iTunes, with my iPhone 3GS or iPod to take on the go but since iTunes lost its importance or got trashed altogether, I'm not informed, how do you keep your photos around in your iPhone right now? I'll point out the iPhone 4s was my last iPhone after I switched to Android but I'm considering returning to iPhones again for better integration with iPhoto. Thank you for your time.
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So I have an ONN 8" tablet running Android 9 which was cheap and over all meets the important but limited needs I have for it, But it has one very annoying quirk.. I use an SD card set as portable storage and anytime I move image files to it they become unreadable until I fully shutdown and restart the tablet (just rebooting doesn't work).. I already tested 3 different and known good SD cards so it's not a bad card, And tried both the default as well as some 3rd party file manager apps so I don't think it's a app bug so I am out of idea's on what I might be able to do to fix it
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Hello everyone and thank you for reading this post. I have started a new Instagram page named <REMOVED BY STAFF> and im looking for anything related with gaming setups would that be laptops, desktop systems, console corner. I will happily work with you, please DM me on the page if you have anything to submit.
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Hi guys, Im wondering how can I legally use an image from an official website in my YouTube vid. Says the video is about motherboards and I want to take a TUF mobo photo from Asus website as an example, who should I ask for permission or what sort of permission do I need to use it "commercially" ? Thanks
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Am I ok to move images around in these photos folders. I have transferred photos from old phones and each time it creates a different camera folder. And if I do move the photos around, will it update on the cloud backup to onedrive or do I have to move the photos around on there. I would like all camera folders to be merged together if possible.
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I have a huawei p20 pro and a p30 (non pro). I recentlt switched to my p30 and transferred all the photos from my p20 pro to my p30. In my p30, the photos are all in order in my gallery, but once i try to open the gallery from like discord or instagram, the photos are in the complete wrong order. I have tried clearing the instagram/discord cache, reinstalling but none of them fixed my problem. Any solution? Thanks.
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I'm at a bit of a loss with this and wondered if anyone might have some suggestions for a workflow. There's Google Photos, Amazon Photos and OneDrive. I have a NAS full of photos and videos and want to back them up on these platforms. I also want to be able to back up the photos I take with my phone in real time (incase the phone gets trashed before I can offload them). Enabling this will create duplicates on all of these platforms that then show up in the timeline view. Am I missing something, is there a better workflow?
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I have a mess of digital media to sort out, photos and videos, and I want a robust system to move forward with. I've been doing some research and want to offer up what I've found so far for discussion. Three Tier Format YYYY->YYYY-MM-DD Event->Photos Example 2020 2020-01-04 Sleepover Evening at In Laws Photos 2020-01-05 Sleepover Morning at In Laws Photos 2020-01-05 Walk to the Park Photos 2020-01-05 Dinner at In Laws Photos Comments Flattest, most denormalized methodology Feels like year directories could get very bloated Special events i.e. holidays, that span monthly boundaries would be visually contiguous Complex day events could have further sub directories: Those with many sources such as other people and camera types Events that are long like graduations may be divided into sections Four Tier Variant One Format YYYY->YYYY-MM->YYYY-MM-DD Event->Photos Example 2020 2020-01 2020-01-04 Sleepover Evening at In Laws Photos 2020-01-05 Sleepover Morning at In Laws Photos 2020-01-05 Walk to the Park Photos 2020-01-05 Dinner at In Laws Photos Other Variant Formats YYYY->MM->DD Event->Photos YYYY->MM Name->DD Event->Photos Comments Breaks things down further by month under the year level More nested than Three Tier methodology Holiday events that span month boundaries would be broken up by month so not visually contiguous Same rules possible for complex events and multiple sources as Three Tier Five Tier Format YYYY->YYYY-MM->YYYY-MM-DD->YYYY-MM-DD Event->Photos Example 2020 2020-01 2020-01-04 2020-01-04 Sleepover Evening at In Laws Photos 2020-01-05 2020-01-05 Sleepover Morning at In Laws Photos 2020-01-05 Walk to the Park Photos 2020-01-05 Dinner at In Laws Photos Comments Plus, all the naming variants as in Four Tier Deep nesting Could potentially have one or two directories in days These could contain many or few photos Same rules possible for complex events and multiple sources as Three Tier General Comments With the Three Tier methodology the concern of ‘keys’ is not there because everything is flat under the year directory. > Three tiers then we might start thinking in terms of a relational database i.e. primary and secondary keys: YYYY is a primary key [PK] at level one but is a foreign key at level two and so on YYYY[FK]-MM[PK] YYYY[FK]-MM[FK]-DD[PK] Do we even want such a bloated naming convention with more than three tiers? It might be unwieldy to deal with anything beyond four tiers, we are humans and not computers after all It is undesirable to rely on additional software such as Lightroom The system must be as future proof as possible It should be intuitive for all that may encounter it – this will be handed down and added to through the generations Metadata is nice but it should be an independent concern that can be dealt with later/separately I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and input.
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Hey guys, I'm looking to upgrade my home printer from a $60 Canon from a couple years ago. I am getting a new job that i will likely need to use a (2 side scanner, 2 side color printer, wireless connectivity, and fax would be nice to have), however i am getting into photography as a hobby and i'm looking for something that will be able to produce good quality color prints. I've looked around the internet, but most of the printer reviews are really generic, and the specs for printers on manufacturer sites are also very generic, still acting like WiFi is a new feature. I guess i'm looking for recommendations for an all around great printer for business printing and high quality photo printing.
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I need help with this, I have solved many windows problems by digging the internet but this is something new for me and i haven't found much people on the internet with this. What happened = i was using a public computer where i took some important pictures that i needed, i wasn't fully sure if there was going to be any virus on the computer and after i came home plugged my pen drive in and found additional files on it with the pictures, i tried to open a unknown file and it spit up a .txt file so seeing this i grabbed one picture i needed and formatted my pen drive. I opened the picture and a random file appears on the desktop with a title that i remember, a title of a folder i deleted. Now every time i open pictures the folder creates it self even after i delete it. i can edit the title and it would come back with the same title. I scanned it with avast but it says its not a virus. i don't have any recovery of my drives so I'm cornered.
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So i took this picture from my phone and I want to download a higher resolution image of it. I tried searching by doing the drag and drop to google search and also google lens, but instead of giving me the exact image it gave me related images to that category. I would appreciate if you could let me know of some steps to try out or a relevant tool to do the search to download a quality image of it. Thanks
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So my Internet was sluggish for some reason, and couldn't load photos as I was trying to view an Instagram page. Then I noticed this "weird" text behind the said photos. I have used my master MS Paint skills to edit out the person's information for obvious reasons. Text (in Greek) translates as follows: 1. Picture may contain: 1 person, close up. 2. Picture may contain: one or more persons and people sitting. 3. Picture may contain: 1 person 4. Picture may contain: 1 person, (sun)glasses. 5. Picture may contain: text. I found it weird and interesting. Maybe something to do with Instagram's algorithm to recognize what's in a picture?
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I'm trying to fix a Oneplus X as it has been having storage problems, they don't support SD card as internal storage, and it's only got about 12GB of internal, which is annoying. (This is a secondary issue) I want to factory reset the phone, but I need to retain SMS and phone call logs if possible. I know that there is a app for backing up these, But, the main issue is, I can no longer install any apps to the phone as the Google Play store app has gone rogue. It's not in the app drawer or the apps list in settings. FYI: Android 6.0.1 9.94GB used of 11.54GB And, it's also getting this error everywhere (See attached)