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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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1140 points pattyj | 3 comments | 17 Sep 25 11:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.588s | source
1. tmountain ◴[17 Sep 25 13:36 UTC] No.45275684[source]▶
I shoot RAW but I wouldn't want to eat up all my iCloud space with my RAW files. They're 80MB each off of my Fujifilm camera. I store them on a local DAS instead. Curious what the real use case is for storing RAW on iPhoto.
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2. _aavaa_ ◴[17 Sep 25 13:48 UTC] No.45275818[source]▶
Backups on the go. 2TB iCloud + wifi + sd card reader for iPhone.

No longer have to bring laptop or external drive along for backups

3. josephg ◴[17 Sep 25 13:49 UTC] No.45275827[source]▶
You can put your apple photos library on an external / network attached drive. Thats what I do, since my photo library has grown to ~300gb. And I'd much rather buy a hard drive than rent one from apple.

There's also the excellent osxphotos utility which can export / backup / migrate photos in and out of apple photos:

https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos