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by yardstick 160 days ago
Do you take into account the iPhone not holding the original images of every photo? It will offload originals and just keep thumbnails if the library is too large.

Mine is approaching 1.5TB, I’ve got no hope of keeping that all on an iPhone, and also no guarantee that any given photo is fully available locally.
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cyberpunk 160 days ago
Aren't there hooks on the filesystem layer that downloads them when you access them? E.g I can browse via terminal to my iCloud Drive somehow and cat etc works on files which aren't local (after locking to download them first).
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thw_9a83c 160 days ago
> Do you take into account the iPhone not holding the original images of every photo?

If you have enough storage space on your iPhone, you can select "Download and Keep Originals" in the photo app settings.

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m463 159 days ago
I think the originals and edits are both there.

I don't know about space-optimized storage on-phone. I know one setting for transfer to mac or pc - I have it set to "keep originals" instead of "automatic". There might be other settings I'm not aware of.

EDIT: actually, there are other directories (under /mnt but outside DCIM in my example) that seem to have other photo stuff, maybe edits? ymmv

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