Downloading albums -- so grateful #951
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Consolidating a large collection of photos across two icloud accounts has proven very difficult: airdrop is cute if the material is local or small, but trying to share thousands of icloud photos and videos times out and fails every time. It's a mess, even if I try smaller batches of a hundred. Alternatively, downloading albums from icloud.com produces very large zip files, and all nested file dates are today, which makes the export significantly less useful.
Your scripts are exactly what I needed to get two large albums from two separate accounts locally so I can consolidate and produce video content from them. The dates the images were taken are set on the local filesystem as they should be. Thank you so much!!
I used this command for each icloud account and album:
sudo docker run -it --rm --name icloudpd -v /<docker root>/icloudpd/Photos:/data -e TZ=America/New_York icloudpd/icloudpd:latest icloudpd --directory '/data/<album name>' --folder-structure none --album '<album name>'
Being able to preview the files and paths with
--only-print-filenames
is also great.One small potential addition:
If the
--directory
subfolder does not exist, the script fails with a 'path does not exist' error, even if the container has appropriate permissions to /data/.It would be super if the script would automatically create that subfolder, just as is done with date folders.
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