• Re: Sending photos from Photos

    From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Aug 23 20:04:23 2022
    On 23 Aug 2022 at 20:25:50 BST, "Theo"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    If someone has some photos imported into Photos on a Mac, what's the
    simplest way to send a few of them to somebody else? I think you can select them and Share... but not sure what the best route is from there. Email is the obvious, but there are size limits which makes it quite limitng. Is there any kind of plugin for Photos that will upload them somewhere and
    allow somebody else to view them?

    The photos don't want to be public, so we aren't talking Instagram etc. iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
    use it without sync?


    If you select a too-large bundle of items from Photos and Share as...
    email, Mail will offer to send them "using Mail Drop" which actually
    uploads them to iCloud and puts a link in the email. Give that a test
    run.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203093

    Cheers - Jaimie

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  • From Graeme Wall@21:1/5 to Theo on Tue Aug 23 20:50:16 2022
    On 23/08/2022 20:25, Theo wrote:
    If someone has some photos imported into Photos on a Mac, what's the
    simplest way to send a few of them to somebody else? I think you can select them and Share... but not sure what the best route is from there. Email is the obvious, but there are size limits which makes it quite limitng. Is there any kind of plugin for Photos that will upload them somewhere and
    allow somebody else to view them?

    The photos don't want to be public, so we aren't talking Instagram etc. iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
    use it without sync?

    Any suggestions for other services?


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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 23 20:25:50 2022
    If someone has some photos imported into Photos on a Mac, what's the
    simplest way to send a few of them to somebody else? I think you can select them and Share... but not sure what the best route is from there. Email is the obvious, but there are size limits which makes it quite limitng. Is
    there any kind of plugin for Photos that will upload them somewhere and
    allow somebody else to view them?

    The photos don't want to be public, so we aren't talking Instagram etc.
    iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too
    many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
    use it without sync?

    Any suggestions for other services?

    Thanks
    Theo

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  • From Andy Hewitt@21:1/5 to Theo on Tue Aug 23 21:01:15 2022
    Theo <[email protected]> wrote:
    If someone has some photos imported into Photos on a Mac, what's the
    simplest way to send a few of them to somebody else? I think you can select them and Share... but not sure what the best route is from there. Email is the obvious, but there are size limits which makes it quite limitng. Is there any kind of plugin for Photos that will upload them somewhere and
    allow somebody else to view them?

    The photos don't want to be public, so we aren't talking Instagram etc. iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
    use it without sync?

    Any suggestions for other services?

    Thanks
    Theo

    Just some additional comments.

    As others have mentioned, you can use the ‘share’ menu item, and then select a preferred method. If the other person is nearby then ‘Airdrop’ works well (I use that a lot here).

    Syncing doesn’t work for others, it only works within a single Apple ID account, although you can share from this, the images are reduced
    resolution.

    Or you can export them, and use any one of the other cloud sharing systems
    that are still available. Although beware that many are being dropped now,
    or reducing free storage space, so might not be any better than email.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Tue Aug 23 23:06:07 2022
    Jaimie Vandenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
    If you select a too-large bundle of items from Photos and Share as...
    email, Mail will offer to send them "using Mail Drop" which actually
    uploads them to iCloud and puts a link in the email. Give that a test
    run.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203093

    Ah thanks. I heard Google did that for Gmail but wasn't aware it worked for Mail.app + iCloud. I'll give that a go.

    Theo

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  • From RJH@21:1/5 to Theo on Wed Aug 24 05:59:47 2022
    On 23 Aug 2022 at 20:25:50 BST, Theo wrote:

    iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
    use it without sync?

    Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use, backup and access anywhere?

    (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within Photos).

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  • From RJH@21:1/5 to Theo on Wed Aug 24 12:11:19 2022
    On 24 Aug 2022 at 12:27:53 BST, Theo wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
    backup and access anywhere?

    (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
    Photos).

    At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very long time...


    Good grief. I didn't know that that was still a thing.


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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to RJH on Wed Aug 24 12:27:53 2022
    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use, backup and access anywhere?

    (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within Photos).

    At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very long time...

    Theo

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  • From Graeme Wall@21:1/5 to RJH on Wed Aug 24 15:27:42 2022
    On 24/08/2022 13:11, RJH wrote:
    On 24 Aug 2022 at 12:27:53 BST, Theo wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
    backup and access anywhere?

    (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
    Photos).

    At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very >> long time...


    Good grief. I didn't know that that was still a thing.



    Sneakernet?

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to RJH on Wed Aug 24 15:34:52 2022
    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 24 Aug 2022 at 12:27:53 BST, Theo wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
    backup and access anywhere?

    (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
    Photos).

    At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very long time...


    Good grief. I didn't know that that was still a thing.

    I did a line test... it's max 1.28Mbps upload speed. Better, but that's only about 13GB per day.

    Faster products are available, but why pay for more than classic ADSL if you don't need it? VDSL would only get about 6Mbps upload anyway.

    Theo

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  • From Bruce Horrocks@21:1/5 to Theo on Thu Aug 25 00:01:42 2022
    On 24/08/2022 12:27, Theo wrote:
    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
    backup and access anywhere?

    (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
    Photos).

    At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very long time...

    Only if you sync all photos. Sharing (in Photos) just the ones you want
    to share will take the same length of time as sending the same selection
    by email. Either way, the photos have to be uploaded by your machine at
    some point.

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  • From RJH@21:1/5 to Theo on Thu Aug 25 03:06:18 2022
    On 24 Aug 2022 at 15:34:52 BST, Theo wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 24 Aug 2022 at 12:27:53 BST, Theo wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
    backup and access anywhere?

    (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within >>>> Photos).

    At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very >>> long time...


    Good grief. I didn't know that that was still a thing.

    I did a line test... it's max 1.28Mbps upload speed. Better, but that's only
    about 13GB per day.


    Well, could be worse ;-). I think mine's about 6Mbps. I'd still think about
    the iCloud route if I were you. Depending on your library size - it might mean paying though if you go above the 50GB 'free' limit. IME it's fairly seemless, and my library (120GB) rebuilt over what seemed like weeks quite seamlessly.

    Faster products are available, but why pay for more than classic ADSL if you don't need it? VDSL would only get about 6Mbps upload anyway.


    Of course. I don't often need the c.10MB/s download speed of mine but it's handy when I do. That said I certainly don't need (or want) any faster.


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  • From David Kennedy@21:1/5 to Bruce Horrocks on Thu Aug 25 06:34:03 2022
    On 25/08/2022 00:01, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
    On 24/08/2022 12:27, Theo wrote:
    RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
    backup and access anywhere?

    (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
    Photos).

    At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very >> long time...

    Only if you sync all photos. Sharing (in Photos) just the ones you want to share will take the same length of time as sending the same selection by email. Either way, the photos have to be uploaded by your machine at some point.

    Set it to sync overnight or when your away for the weekend...

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  • From David Kennedy@21:1/5 to RJH on Thu Aug 25 06:33:14 2022
    On 25/08/2022 04:06, RJH wrote:

    Well, could be worse ;-). I think mine's about 6Mbps. I'd still think about the iCloud route if I were you. Depending on your library size - it might mean
    paying though if you go above the 50GB 'free' limit. IME it's fairly seemless,
    and my library (120GB) rebuilt over what seemed like weeks quite seamlessly.

    Agreed.
    The whole benefit of icloud is that it happens automatically in the background so things are available on whatever device you want whenever you want.
    The only drawback is the transfer time when you want something on a different device immediately and, for that you can use air-drop.

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