Comment by SilverElfin
13 hours ago
I wish I could just get photos out of iCloud. The iCloud app ok windows doesn’t work period. Authentication issues, taking up CPU but not actually doing anything, and creating empty files that are just shells for what’s in the cloud.
It is so absolutely terrible that I think it is purposeful. But if I could get it all, I could consolidate into something else. Either way, it’s frustrating enough that I’ve stopped buying apple.
Check out icloudpd. It’s a bit fiddly but it definitely does work once you have it set up.
You can grab a data export from privacy.apple.com
But the how do I get the remaining latest files that aren’t in it? Manually from the iCloud website?
Also do they include all the variants in that export like the edits, filters, etc? I get the feeling those may be a proprietary Apple only thing.