I agree wholeheartedly!
Rob
On 1/1/17 10:40 am, Michael Hawkins wrote:
Thanks Tim. What underpinned my email was my frustration with what I see as
Apple's less than open tactic of making uploading to iCloud the default
setting when iOS updates are released. I don't know what the privacy laws are
in whichever Country the server is housed, and the debacle with the Australian
census last year illustrates that no system is safe from database corruption.
If someone has more than one Apple device and wants to share content between
the devices or make it possible for one device to access another, it should be
that person's decision to set the system up so that that can be done.
We don't all live in a location with ready Internet access, or quick upload and
download speeds. Nor do we all live in a place where access to the Internet is
cheap.
In other words the decision to transmit data over the internet should be a
conscious deliberate decision made by the person who owns the data, and causing
the data to be uploaded by default for commercial gain is reprehensible.
Cheers,
Michael
Sent from my iPhone
On 1 Jan 2017, at 10:14 am, Tim Law <[email protected]> wrote:
Fair question Michael,
The advantage of iCloud syncing as I see it, is that you can have one ‘master’
computer where you download and store the originals photos, AS WELL AS storing
the full sized versions on the cloud. This enables Time Machine and Super Duper
to back up the photos if iCloud flies away into dark matter. I’ve lost many
photos before due to hard disk failure and don’t want to go through that again.
The other advantage is that it only downloads smaller images to all the other
devices, sized to suit that device. The entire photo library is on each of
these devices, all 15000, not like using Photo Stream which only put 1000
photos on the mobile devices. I am not likely to NEED to view all those on
the other devices, but inevitably when I wanted to show someone a photo from a
year before for example, when using Photo Stream, and iTunes sync, it was not
in either folder.
I did try to do what you suggest, but the MacBook Pro did not have enough
storage capacity for the full Photos Library, and there was really no need to
have more than one computer with full sized images. If you need to edit or
print the full sized images, they are downloaded from iCloud as needed to the
specific device.
I trust this explains my logic.
I have stopped taking photos in RAW which complicates matters somewhat when
sharing via iCloud. What I have found is that a photo that has both JPEG and
RAW version is impossible to select between in iOS devices. So if I want to
attach a photo to an email, it must be in JPEG not RAW, and several times I
have done it, only the RAW version - at some 20mb - is able to be attached. I’m
now taking full sized JPEG instead and these run to around 8mb per image, and
the size is managed by Mail when sending. I am not sure if there is a way
around the way iCloud manages RAW image syncing to iOS devices - happy to hear
suggestions.
Regards
Tim
On 31 Dec 2016, at 8:45 PM, Michael Hawkins <[email protected]>
wrote:
Pardon me for asking this, but wouldn't have been faster and simpler to
physically connect one computer to the other?
Michael
Sent from my iPhone
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