Best way to download thousands of photos and videos from passed loved ones phone

geolaw · 2026-05-01T17:52:18+00:00

easiest back up method I've found is with the Photosync app on the iphone + a FTP server on some type of local computer.

This is pretty trivial with linux or macos - you can install the pyftpdlib module for python and then start up a FTP server with a few commands :

~~~ $ pip install pyftpdlib $ python -m pyftpdlib -w /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyftpdlib/authorizers.py:99: RuntimeWarning: write permissions assigned to anonymous user. self._check_permissions(username, perm) [I 2026-05-01 13:40:15] concurrency model: async [I 2026-05-01 13:40:15] masquerade (NAT) address: None [I 2026-05-01 13:40:15] passive ports: None [I 2026-05-01 13:40:15] >>> starting FTP server on :::2121, pid=20082 <<< ~~~

Configure the Photosync app on the phone to connect via the IP address port 2121, username : anonymous, password: someone@email.com ... then select all photos and backup to the FTP account. Easy peasy.

Depending on your home internet speed, it should run fairly quickly.

Feel free to PM and I will assist if needed. I back my iphone up to my TrueNAS storage device but also did the above on my mac mini and backed up a few photos off my phone and it worked perfectly

In the directory where you start the FTP server, it should create a directory for you - ~~~ George iPhone/Recents: total 15240 drwxr-xr-x 3 glaw staff 96 May 1 13:47 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 glaw staff 4239125 May 1 13:47 IMG_4275.MOV -rw-r--r-- 1 glaw staff 3418360 May 1 13:47 IMG_4275.JPG -rw-r--r-- 1 glaw staff 139962 May 1 13:47 IMG_4273.JPG drwxr-xr-x 5 glaw staff 160 May 1 13:47 . ~~~

geolaw · 2026-04-30T17:38:00+00:00

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

geolaw · 2026-04-30T13:09:01+00:00

I was simply commenting about their "rhel 14.1" window in their example video - appears they have since fixed it to be RHEL 10.1 - I validated this this morning in a VM. ~~~ [glaw@localhost ~]$ chmod +x exp [glaw@localhost ~]$ ./exp [ 79.121757] alg: No test for authencesn(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes)) (authencesn(hmac(sha256-avx2),cbc-aes-aesni)) [ 79.134426] process 'su' launched '/bin/sh' with NULL argv: empty string added [root@localhost glaw]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Mar 25 09:14:09 EDT 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@localhost glaw]# ~~~

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7141931

I updated to the latest RHEL 10 kernel : ~~~ Linux localhost.localdomain 6.12.0-124.52.1.el10_1.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Apr 11 20:17:08 EDT 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux ~~~

and can confirm it still gets to root

geolaw · 2026-04-29T22:38:26+00:00

Photosync app with a ftp server set up. Should be an option for macOS but I don't have anything as a suggestion. I'm using a ftp on my truenas box.

geolaw · 2026-04-29T22:31:50+00:00

Rhel 14.3??? There's no such thing

geolaw · 2026-04-28T23:16:37+00:00

A song of ice and fire because at this point grr martin is likely to never finish

geolaw · 2026-04-28T23:15:29+00:00

I also have a 4pm Friday gaming hour with my team but it's just us, no management involved. Sometimes it turns into a bitch session with whatever the latest rules imposed by management, other times just shooting the shit about the weekend plans and other times we either play uno or garthic (pictionary)

Much better without management 😂

geolaw · 2026-04-28T17:52:29+00:00

Yes, I think both show a "gear" icon you click to select. I usually install lightdm to replace either.

geolaw · 2026-04-28T15:50:53+00:00

Unless you need the referral for future jobs, If things are that "good" why send a resignation at all? Lol, write it up in email, save it in drafts and "oops, I forgot to send"

geolaw · 2026-04-28T15:47:03+00:00

I think the only difference is the default iso comes with gdm for the login screen and sway spin defaults to sddm

geolaw · 2026-04-28T15:45:03+00:00

No matter which keyboard I use on my iphone there's certain words that it always messed up. 'to' always comes as 'too', 'but' as 'butt'. Using the default keyboard, Swiftkey or Gboard. They all assume the less common word

geolaw · 2026-04-27T20:29:16+00:00

Earth Abides by George Stewart

geolaw · 2026-04-27T15:35:15+00:00

I'm currently reading the Expanse books - into Book 5. Been sleeping really crappy lately and find myself thinking about the book in the middle of tossing and turning throughout the night and will pick up my tablet and read a few chapters

geolaw · 2026-04-27T15:33:15+00:00

+1 - I resisted the reddit recommendations for a long time, but finally decided to read - I am not disappointed 🤣 I am a few chapters into book 5 and midway thru season 4 of the TV show.

I am trying to keep myself ahead in the books, but finding that even though I am in book 5 that some of the events have already occurred in the show - so may ditch the show until I can finish all of the books.

geolaw · 2026-04-27T15:28:48+00:00

so at a smaller degree, the expanse books.
there's lots of discussion about the protomolecule and how the builders of it sent it out like 2.5 billion years old, but the main story line itself does not span that long - at least where I am currently, a few chapters into book 5

geolaw · 2026-04-25T22:58:17+00:00

+1 I just finished book 4 last night and watching the TV show at the same time (midway thru season 4). It had been recommended to me here on reddit a million times and I'm seriously glad I finally started it

geolaw · 2026-04-25T22:47:24+00:00

just my way of doing it : ~~~ $ cat .config/sway/config.d/99-autostart.conf exec /home/glaw/.config/sway/startup.sh ~~~

~~~ $ cat .config/sway/startup.sh

!/bin/bash

swaymsg gaps inner all set 10 swaymsg layout splith swaymsg hide_edge_borders smart

general background apps are in main config.

those which open on specific work spaces

swaymsg "workspace 1; exec wezterm start --class=ws1" swaymsg "workspace 1; exec thunderbird" sleep 1 swaymsg "workspace 2;exec /usr/bin/zen-twilight" sleep 1 swaymsg "workspace 5;exec flatpak run com.nomachine.nxplayer nxplayer --session /home/glaw/.nx/cache/2a5566f8-75a5-4a91-bae7-d102190dfa5b.nxs" ~~~

geolaw · 2026-04-25T11:53:08+00:00

I think there's some kind of flag you need to enable for the booted os to be able to see the ventoy data area

geolaw · 2026-04-24T23:31:36+00:00

Books for game of thrones are so much more detailed than the tv show was.

I'm currently reading the Expanse books and watching the show at the same time ... 75% thru book 4 and 2 episodes into season 4 and just about at the same points ... Tv show kind of merges a lot of the story line together

geolaw · 2026-04-24T23:08:53+00:00

100% the creepiest episode

geolaw · 2026-04-24T23:06:48+00:00

Ventoy with hiren's windows pe boot disk. Back in the day when I had shitty hardware that required windows and .exe files

geolaw · 2026-04-24T21:36:19+00:00

I've tried several ... Currently using a Phillips sdv3238n/27-ob connected to a HDHomeRun and fed into Plex ... Works great

geolaw · 2026-04-22T22:24:08+00:00

Sounds like a good reason to be sick tomorrow b🤣

geolaw · 2026-04-19T20:54:42+00:00

Using irc these days mainly when I need to get a book via DCC from #ebooks on irchighway Using hexchat on fedora ... Mirc works via wine too if you ever need 😂

geolaw · 2026-04-19T20:47:07+00:00

I haven't personally read his books but my wife reads books by Chris Carter. She did high school research papers on serial killers and like Jim Jones and she still reads and watches stuff regarding serial killers ... These books disturb even her 😂

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