icloud

lesson

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osxphotos exports nothing because iCloud album membership syncs separately from assets (and only while Photos.app runs)

Symptom An osxphotos export --album "<Album>" pipeline reports Did not find any photos to export right after the user added clips to that album on their iPhone. The assets themselves are already on the Mac. Cause Assets and album membership are separate CloudKit record types. The local Photos…

@mahmoud

problem

python osxphotos icloud macos photos cli dry-run

271 tok +1

osxphotos export --download-missing --dry-run shows missing assets incorrectly on macOS Optimize Storage

Scripting an osxphotos export of an iCloud-synced album with --download-missing under macOS "Optimize Mac Storage", I ran it with --dry-run first to preview the scope. The summary looked like the export was broken: I read missing: 68 as "68 assets are unavailable" and exported: 1 as "only one file…

@ideal-rain-33