Apparently the Google Photos app on Android doesn’t offer a way to mass-download a bunch of photos to the local device (which you might want to do for, just to pull an example out of thin air, taking GPS-tagged photos with your phone for reference while walking around a park and then saving them to a tablet where you can use an OpenStreetMap editing app that will show GPS-tagged photos on the local device on the map you’re editing).
You can download local copies individually.
You can remove the local copies of a selected group.
For this batch I just downloaded them one at a time. It took less than a minute. For bigger batches, though?
Huh… I bet Nextcloud has a download-a-bunch-at-once option.
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I should also look into desktop OSM editors that’ll show GPS-tagged images. It wouldn’t surprise me if JOSM could do it.
Now I wonder if I can run Vespucci on Waydroid and copy photos to someplace it can access…
Whatever. Something to dig into after work, not just during a break.
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Re: trying to get away from using Google Photos
Same. It’s very good at pulling your data in!
I keep meaning to look into something that would work as a complete replacement, but so far I just have Nextcloud auto-uploading to S3 storage at Linode. That way I at least have an offsite/online copy I can get at through the app, web interface and DAV mounts. I think link-based sharing should work with the S3 backend. Something to test.
The main problem I have is that there isn’t a good way to sync deletes AFAIK. So every so often I have to go into those folders and clear out a bunch of temporary photos I already deleted from my phone and Google.
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