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Let’s be honest: importing and managing personal media without relying on big tech software is a stressful, itchy, and exhausting process. I am constantly trying to make it as simple, quick, and reliable as possible, but I am having a hard time. Below I noted some some of my experiments and the steps I currently follow.
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1. import everything in an isolated folder
2. run DupeGuru (VIDEOS MANAGEMENT?)
3. run [[ExifTool]]
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The cleanest way to move files from an Android to a MacOS device is by using ADB.
1. Connect the phone to the computer;
2. Check if the two devices are connected correctly by running adb devices;
3. Navigate in the phone directories adb shell, ls -al;
4. once the path of the directories which contain the content that has to be copied on the computer has been noted, execute adb pull /path/in/phone /destination/path/on/computer;
5. Done. This is how simple, neat, fast, and powerful this process is.
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I still haven’t figured the best way to transfer a lot of images from iPhone to MacOS. AirDrop is wonderful, but it cannot work with all of the photos and videos in my mobile gallery.
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To save pictures from my iPhone to [[Linuxplosion]] I use [[PhotoSync]]. Here are the key steps I performed to set everything up:
1. make a desktop computer remotely reachable via SSH
2. Importing pictures automatically via SFTP
3. I configured PhotoSync so that directories based on date are automatically created.
4. I set a weekly reminder to make me start the import when Linuxplosion [[Linuxplosion#Schedule|is scheduled to be on]]