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antant

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#3379552 1-Jun-2025 09:35

Earbanean:

Has anyone used a third party app like PhotoSync to sync photos to a PC (which in turn would sync with OneDrive)?

We do exactly this, and photosync seems to work pretty well. Initially did make use of the auto-transfer feature, it stopped working at some point (possibly when I changed PCs) and never bothered to set it up again - noting though that we do have a family iCloud subscription which does give us extra space and therefore extra breathing room. Basically run it once a month or so on everyone's phones, more so we can delete photos and save space on the phones / iCloud ... once copied over photos then get backed up onto OneDrive and other back-ups. Of course, the only catch is, eventually OneDrive starts to get full as well!

Earbanean

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#3380059 3-Jun-2025 09:54

antant:

We do exactly this, and photosync seems to work pretty well. Initially did make use of the auto-transfer feature, it stopped working at some point (possibly when I changed PCs) and never bothered to set it up again - noting though that we do have a family iCloud subscription which does give us extra space and therefore extra breathing room. Basically run it once a month or so on everyone's phones, more so we can delete photos and save space on the phones / iCloud ... once copied over photos then get backed up onto OneDrive and other back-ups. Of course, the only catch is, eventually OneDrive starts to get full as well!

Sounds like it could be a solution. Does it do automatic syncs, or do you have to trigger it on each phone? If the latter, then I guess we could just trigger the OneDrive uploads.

antant

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#3380624 5-Jun-2025 08:49

You can set it to do automatic syncs ... I think we had it set to automatically sync each time we returned to the house.

Now we just do the manually triggered updates. Gives us a chance to delete photos/videos that we may not actually need / want stored forever (e.g. photos of shopping lists, etc).

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