In my opinion, 15 Gb on our Google accounts is no longer enough. Google
Photos keeps prompting to enable backup. Most people are going to exceed
this quota. In my opinion, this is manifestation of serious “platform
decay”.
This is starting to affect all my immediate family members.
As a QNAP user, obviously I have had long standing interest in private cloud
services. For my current QNAP, I have Western Digital Gold drives rated
up to 2.5M hours MTBF. They have been running for 4 years, now. The
previous set of enterprise class drives last 10 years, powered on 24x7 in a
home built linux server. I want to use my QNAP to protect all my electronic
artifacts. And to undertake Information Lifecycle Management.
I recommended disabling Google Photos and switching to Fossify Gallery:
I recommend setup of QFile on Andriod to sync your photos and screen captures
to your QNAP. One could choose to sync to private QNAP home or a public
share. I recommend a simple file sync to QNAP share so family members can
access one anothers photos.
When one uses QFile, then photos/screen captures/files are copied at full
resolution to your QNAP server. Google compresses photos stored on Google.
This is most important for Android users where there is no micro sd card. My
son had a Google Pixel 6 that bricked. Therefore, he lost the full
resolution copies of his photos.
In my opinion, 15 Gb on our Google accounts is no longer enough.
Google Photos keeps prompting to enable backup. Most people
are going to exceed this quota. In my opinion, this is
manifestation of serious “platform decay”.
This is starting to affect all my immediate family members.
In my opinion, one should have methodology to move GMail
away of Google for Information Lifecycle Management.
To achieve, I have setup Debian 12 virtual machine on QNAP
running Dovecot. This setup is beyond the scope of this article.
I setup Isync to sync gmail to my Debian 12 virtual machine.
Then I wrote a script to move the gmail to local mbox.
Isync will then purge the email from Gmail.
Thanks for sharing your application and script! We really welcome these kinds of exchanges from all users. It helps make our community richer and helps more people who need it.
Also, just out of personal curiosity, why did you choose open-source software like Fossify Gallery over QuMagie? Thanks!
I also sync my photos from my Android phone to the QNAP. But how can I see on my phone which photos have been synced to the QNAP, and which are only online or only in the cloud?
