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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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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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unraid I like a photo backup and sharing solution
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hi LTT forum, I had recently at school a lesson about Facebook. That guy said that facebook is recording everything you do. FB posts, Instagram posts, sites that you visit that has a Facebook link, private messages in messenger,.. etc So I went as soon as possible online to search for my personal Facebook archive. and I found it and literally everything is there! I don't think a lot of people know this.. so a just wanted to let you know ? (I found it here: http://www.zdnet.be/article/127327/download-heel-je-facebook-geschiedenis/ )
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So about a month ago I built my first pc which has a 256gb ssd and a 3tb hard drive in raid one with another one. I installed windows and everything on my ssd but that means that all of the libraries were also be stored there including the photos and documents etc. I wanted to move them off my ssd into my hard drives. The reason I wanted to move them was because I wanted to back up my iphone and to export its photos into the photos app on my desktop. I know how to do this but my ssd wouldn't have enough space if I did so I needed to move the photos application off the ssd. I did this by right clicking photos for example, then I went to the properties and then the location then changed it so that it went to my hard drive. I did this to all my library except for the documents and one drive. I have two things that went wrong when moving them. Firstly, now when I open the photos application it tells me that I need to add photos which I know used to work before I moved it. I prompts me to tell it where to find them, and when I do that it then tells me that there are no readable files or folders there, which I know used to work. Secondly in the process of moving the contacts I managed to replace my entire folder with the contacts folder so now all of my library contents are within the contacts folder itself.I read into restoring windows to default which would reset windows and that it would actually keep all of my files, but I am worried that it might still lose them which would be pretty bad as it already doesn't know what it is.I am extremely lost and could really use some help. Thanks in advance!
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I'm trying to download a lot of photos from my time studying abroad, and we have all combined our photos into a huge google photos album, but when I use the download all option, it downloads a file labeled as 5 GB, which seems right, but it ends up being an MOV file that when opened is just the one video in the album. Has anyone else had this problem?
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So my mom's s8 has a wierd problem... It mixes up photos. And I can't seem to find the originals For example