I gave up on the 'duplicate detection' software after trying a few. This
might have improved (it was a few years ago) but they were hit and miss,
and one corrupted the Photo library. But they're still out there. The
catch is that they have to work with the library data not just the
photos but my woes were with the late versions of iPhoto; maybe Photos
is better.
I'd suggest saying 'on this future date, current libraries will be
archived off iCloud' (could either be individually or together. I'd say
do it when you migrate them to their own set-up at 16 or whatever. They
need a fully independent set-up at some point). They can go in and get
photos they want, and add them back to their current one (sounds like it
might be quicker)?
But honestly, have a convo with them. They might shrug and go through
and delete thousands while waiting for the bus. Whatever you decide will
work better if it's also their decision;)
I was about to say 'don't apple have something for this?' then saw you
had followed up with it haha.
On 24 Dec 2022, at 10:51, mac98aop wrote:
Thanks, Jason. Really appreciate the reply.
Yes, it seems a lot of work and to be honest, too much work! Maybe
that's
Apple's ploy and we all simply routinely up our data storage!
Each child's account shows they have thousands of photos (3-5k) but
perhaps
they're still small files, as you say? And so we'll start by removing
any
unwanted videos and live photos.
It's the vast amounts of screenshots and duplicates that seem
unnecessary
and I recall there are Apps to help identify and remove. Perhaps you
know
any to recommend?
Anyway, happy Xmas!
Adam
On Friday, 23 December 2022 at 10:52:15 UTC [email protected] wrote:
All of these are 'it depends'. No one can accurately decide which
photos
to delete, for instance, except that person. I don't actually think
they're
using a lot...
It's videos that will kill storage unless they're taking 100s of
photos.
You can set phones to take lower quality video and photos (they will
probably resist this) which will reduce the endless spiral (which is
only
going to get worse lol). Newer phones take high quality video which
uses a
lot of GBs.
You might say 'right, we're archiving all photos to make room for
more' if
you have a computer they can all use to get access to the archive.
That
would mean creating another Photo library to be the iCloud one and
keeping
the old one just on the computer.
At some point they will want to differentiate their photos, surely,
so
maybe you should think about an age at which they do that and migrate
them
one by one to their own iCloud set-up.
But it's a lot of work (I did a massive purge of my iPhoto library a
few
years ago, it took forever).
I'd sit them down and say 'ok this isn't infinite, how are we going
to
manage it?' They might say pay more and be done with it, and you can
'charge' them a chore or whatever is appropriate.
On 21 Dec 2022, at 21:25, mac98aop wrote:
Evening all
I hope someone can help.
My family has 6 users sharing 200GB of iCloud storage. We've 65GB
left but
I'm pretty sure quite a big chunk of some of my children's data is
junk
that can probably get deleted to free up space before we need to
upgrade
storage.
Does anybody have any tips for how best to do some housekeeping
please?
On their devices, Photos is huge, WhatsApp Messenger sizable (I've 4
teenagers!)
- Is there a more elegant way of reducing those than simply deleting
photo
by photo?!
- Can one view photos/videos by file size and quickly remove any
large and
no longer needed files?
- Backups seem quite hefty, but presumably best left alone or is it
accruing historic data?
- Also for one or two their iCloud Drive lists GarageBand.app and
iMovie.app as taking up several GBs. That indicates the App is stored
there
rather than just associated files. Why is that and can I remove/move?
I'd be really grateful for any tips. Or even pay someone experienced
to
screenshare and help?!
Or is there perhaps a Mac App that iOS/iPadOS devices can be plugged
in to
for a spring clean?
Anyway, happy Christmas everyone and hope someone can help or point
me in
the right direction. I really don't mind upgrading storage if it's
needed
but seems a shame to pay to store any rubbish (teenagers take a LOT
of
screenshots and 'save to cameraroll' a LOT of duds and duplicates!)
Thanks
Adam
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