“ All photos have been downloaded!” But only downloads 1 file

[woopiepoopie]

Hi, So i am referencing this issue. I updated to 1.7.1 and also created created an album with every file I have and call it todo
Then I ran:
C:\Users\PCserver>icloudpd -d Q:\Pictures —album todo -u [email protected] -p ********

And it worked! I have all my files locally and I am very happy about it. I wanted to start automating this process so it runs every day. I used the following command, which removes the album requirement and adds a recent 100, thinking I can this every morning.

C:\Users\PCserver>icloudpd -d Q:\Pictures --recent 100 -u [email protected] -p ********

2020-11-22 00:16:12 DEBUG    Authenticating...
2020-11-22 00:16:15 DEBUG    Looking up all photos and videos from album All Photos...
2020-11-22 00:16:15 INFO     Downloading 100 original photos and videos to Q:\Pictures ...
Q:\Pictures\2019\11\16\IMG_0535.MOV already exists.:   1%|4                                            | 1/100 [00:00<00:44,  2.22it/s]
2020-11-22 00:16:15 INFO     All photos have been downloaded!

But it goes back to downloading one random movie and then stops and I haven’t been able to figure it out. Is there a verbose mode or a way to find the logs so I can provide you the info you need?

Thank you for your time and your tool has been a game changer for my workflow

[johnny2678]

First, thanks for this.

I'm seeing this behavior too. icloudpd keeps trying to download the same file when I have hundreds in iCloud.

/ # icloudpd --directory /home/user/iCloud --username jo***.com -a 'All Photos'
2020-11-24 08:00:14 DEBUG    Authenticating...
iCloud Password: 
2020-11-24 08:00:19 DEBUG    Looking up all photos and videos from album All Photos...
2020-11-24 08:00:19 INFO     Downloading 4 original photos and videos to /home/user/iCloud ...
/home/user/iCloud/2018/04/20/IMG_0001.MOV already exists.: 100%|################################################################################################################################################################################| 4/4 [00:00<00:00,  7.62it/s]
2020-11-24 08:00:19 INFO     All photos have been downloaded!

Tried adding the --no-status-bar as suggested here with the following result... only 4-5 files:

/ # icloudpd --directory /home/user/iCloud --username jo***.com --no-progress-bar
2020-11-24 08:01:43 DEBUG    Authenticating...
iCloud Password: 
2020-11-24 08:01:48 DEBUG    Looking up all photos and videos from album All Photos...
2020-11-24 08:01:48 INFO     Downloading 4 original photos and videos to /home/user/iCloud ...
2020-11-24 08:01:48 INFO     /home/user/iCloud/2020/06/24/IMG_0001.MOV already exists.
2020-11-24 08:01:48 INFO     /home/user/iCloud/2019/01/20/IMG_5463.png already exists.
2020-11-24 08:01:48 INFO     /home/user/iCloud/2018/12/28/IMG_5958.JPG already exists.
2020-11-24 08:01:48 INFO     /home/user/iCloud/2018/04/20/IMG_0001.JPG already exists.
2020-11-24 08:01:48 INFO     /home/user/iCloud/2018/04/20/IMG_0001.MOV already exists.
2020-11-24 08:01:48 INFO     All photos have been downloaded!

have also tried specifying the recent command to return 100 files but it grabs the same random 4-5. Using the -l command does list out my iCloud albums, so I know it's able to read my iCloud photo structure.

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious.

edit: grammer

edit2: version info:

/ # icloudpd --version
icloudpd, version 1.7.0

[woopiepoopie]

@johnny2678
So I figured it out, I think.

I have a large library, 40k photos and have migrated from iPhoto many years ago. Through all this, I had a really messy album structure.I did some clean up and I had a few albums called "All Photos", I deleted all of them and now its working as it should!

I was running this command:

```
C:\Users\PCserver>icloudpd -d Q:\Pictures --recent 250 -u *** -p ***
2020-11-23 23:49:33 DEBUG    Authenticating...
2020-11-23 23:49:37 DEBUG    Looking up all photos and videos from album All Photos ...

So by default, it is looking for an album called "All Photos" and downloading from there, if there is no album with that name, then it will download literally, all photos.

I think its worth adding note to GitHub about this, once author can confirm what I am saying is correct

[johnny2678]

wait, starting to feel silly. Does this app work on 'My Photo Streams'? Or just iCloud photos?

I don't have iCloud photos enabled. Made the assumption this worked on photo streams based on the Unraid Community Apps docker description:

If it only works on iCloud photos, is there a way to automatically delete old photos from iCloud to stay under the 5GB free limit? Looks like the auto-delete option only deletes photos from the Recently Deleted folder

[menkej]

This script downloads photo albums respectively "All Photos" from iCloud - excluding shared albums. You understood 'auto-delete' correctly. We do not have an option to delete photos right now. This is "on purpose" as the idea of this script is mainly "backup" of (or exit strategy from...) Photos saved in iCloud.

[woopiepoopie]

Ah, I am not sure. I only use iCloud Photos.

I assume Photo Streams is an album? Your plan seems like a good way to skirt around the free iCloud storage space limit but probably requires a separate issue to be opened. I am going to close this one so so you can explain your use case in a new one.

[menkej]

So by default, it is looking for an album called "All Photos" and downloading from there, if there is no album with that name, then it will download literally, all photos.

This is exactly the case at the moment.

[johnny2678]

Thanks for the response @menkej . The description of the Unraid community app threw me off.

However, curious if this could be modified to work on 'My Photo Streams'?

This seems like a natural/seamless way to archive photos taken without uploading to iCloud since My Photo Streams already syncs the last 30days/1000photos that can be accessed by all devices signed into iCloud (including iCloudpd ).

As long as you run iCloudpd in that timeframe you will be able to keep local backups of all your photos.

If possible, maybe save as a feature request? Thanks for considering.

edit: oops, opening new feature request issue. #242