Is there any way to download more than 1,000 images at a time from iCloud photos?
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thanks a lot for this, just put in a request to download my 7000 photos and videos. Will be a lot easier than downloading in 1000 item chunks.
Yes. I no longer use iCloud Photos and instead self host Photoprism.
Photoprism
hey whoa, just checked that out. How is it from switching? Love self hosting my own stuff but would like to know your thoughts! I just grabbed my backup as well :)
Did you get everything?
My photos & videos is about 80 gb.
When I was requesting my data I was asked for a size limit. I put in 25gb since it was the highest option. Am I gonna get 4 downloads or am I just not gonna get everything?
Yeah I got everything. As you said, there will just be 4 downloads. It is annoying to download though, because it will sign you out of the website after a certain time of inactivity which can stop the download and you have to start again. Didn’t happen consistently to me, but was still annoying. Also, some metadata may be missing, such as date created. That caused some problems for me but only for some of the oldest photos in my library (from 2013 or so).
Oh okay. Good to know thanks :)