Help managing iCloud storage
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Jason Davies
All of these are 'it depends'. No one can accurately decide which photos to delete, for instance, except that person. I don't actually think they're using a lot...
It's videos that will kill storage unless they're taking 100s of photos. You can set phones to take lower quality video and photos (they will probably resist this) which will reduce the endless spiral (which is only going to get worse lol). Newer phones take high quality video which uses a lot of GBs.
You might say 'right, we're archiving all photos to make room for more' if you have a computer they can all use to get access to the archive. That would mean creating another Photo library to be the iCloud one and keeping the old one just on the computer.
At some point they will want to differentiate their photos, surely, so maybe you should think about an age at which they do that and migrate them one by one to their own iCloud set-up.
But it's a lot of work (I did a massive purge of my iPhoto library a few years ago, it took forever).
I'd sit them down and say 'ok this isn't infinite, how are we going to manage it?' They might say pay more and be done with it, and you can 'charge' them a chore or whatever is appropriate.
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Jason
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Jason Davies
I gave up on the 'duplicate detection' software after trying a few. This might have improved (it was a few years ago) but they were hit and miss, and one corrupted the Photo library. But they're still out there. The catch is that they have to work with the library data not just the photos but my woes were with the late versions of iPhoto; maybe Photos is better.
I'd suggest saying 'on this future date, current libraries will be archived off iCloud' (could either be individually or together. I'd say do it when you migrate them to their own set-up at 16 or whatever. They need a fully independent set-up at some point). They can go in and get photos they want, and add them back to their current one (sounds like it might be quicker)?
But honestly, have a convo with them. They might shrug and go through and delete thousands while waiting for the bus. Whatever you decide will work better if it's also their decision;)
I was about to say 'don't apple have something for this?' then saw you had followed up with it haha.
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Jason
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Stephen Watson
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Jason Davies
> Even then, how does one easily archive what's there?
But you can create a new Photo library on a Mac and declare that to be the 'System' one (which will thenceforward sync with iCloud). That effectively archives everything on whichever account is logged in, I believe. Your problem then is keeping a backup of the old one.
I stress this is theory so do a dummy run (eg copy of current library). You could even create a new iCloud account, save a few photos, and test it out (and I would if I were doing it).
Cheers,
Jason