Migrating my Google Photos to a self-hosted option. 10,000 files done; 40,000 to go.
@drb nice one! What platform did you move to? I shifted my Flickr account (10k+ images) to Piwigo... It's great, and the import was surprisingly smooth, but I wish it did a better job with hosting video, too... (nowadays I might consider using NextCloud Images/Video as an alternative)...
@lightweight right now I am just moving the files to a storage server. I have a Nextcloud instance that connects with that server, but the Photos app doesn't have any sorting or other features. I might get an install of either LibrePhotos or PhotoPrism going to serve as a frontend.
@drb interesting, hadn't heard of either of those two systems - will investigate! Thanks, and good luck!
@drb ooo, LibrePhoto looking good already...
@lightweight I think both of those emerged after Google announced their storage changes. Both are trying to implement things like facial recognition and automatic recognition of objects to aid searching.
@drb mine are all on my hard drive (and backed up), but I intend to print a bunch of photo books of important ones. These are good questions to ask.
@mburtonkelly I think the photo books for a selection of photos are a good idea. To me it feels like all of the digital stuff could go poof fairly easily. Of course, prints are susceptible to fire and flood.
I think I have a few photo albums from grandparents and one or two photos from older generations. For my parents, all of their photos are probably exclusively on FB...
@drb I will end up with several photo albums eventually, but most of mine are digital.
The reason I'm thinking about this right now is because I've been working on the family genealogy for 20 years and haven't found a great way to keep track of photo details and provenance.
@mburtonkelly good point. I came across this site, https://collectionaire.com/, which seems like a decent idea. Of course, I'm not sure it is a good idea to collect media on third party sites that could go away at any time.
@mburtonkelly yea, seems to reach about the same conclusions as our discussion.
Speaking of photos, how do people pass photos down to their kids these days? I can't imagine handing down a hard drive or saying, "Don't forget to keep paying for this server!" in my will.