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Photo library/management software (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by DavethegraveHunter@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I’m slowly moving things away from Apple iCloud to my own private infrastructure.

The next thing on my list is photo management.

I currently have several Apple Macs, iPhones, iPads, and a Samsung/Android tablet.

I’m looking for a photo management software I can host myself (of course), but it needs to be integrate well on iOS/iPadOS. It would be handy if I could use the iPhone’s “save photo” functionality (which saves photos to the Apple Photos app) in order to save photos to the self-hosted solution. (Or perhaps a solution that automatically gets new photos from the Apple Photos app and transfers them into the self-hosted software).

It would also be useful if there is a way to run multiple photo libraries on the same device. For instance, I often take photos of family with my iPhone, but also take photos with the iPhone and the Android tablet of work things; it would be handy if I could put these into different libraries, preferably at the time of taking the photo.

Could anyone please recommend something suitable?

Thank you in advance.

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[–] thekrautboy@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you tried to search this subreddit? Photo library tools get discussed so often, you can easily find existing threads.

[–] DavethegraveHunter@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Of course. I searched but couldn’t find anything that included the option of multiple libraries running on the same device at the same time.

[–] ebell451@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Synology Moments

[–] DavethegraveHunter@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Synology Moments seems to be deprecated and replaced by Synology Photos… which as far as I can tell from previous testing, doesn’t have an option for saving an image to a specific library… or am I missing something?

[–] Admirable-Ground542@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Would recommend Nextcloud , also Nextcloud memories app may suit and NC can also sync with iOS and android , I use on a daily basis

[–] ebell451@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are correct about Moments > Synology Photos. Shows how long I've been using them.

You might be missing something or I'm not fully understanding the question. If you perform a manual upload them you can choose your location. The automatic upload you can choose a default location and then move them around from there.

We use this as a solution for my family of 4. Each of our cell phones are automatically backed up to our respective folder/library. We then have the ability to share photos.

https://app.screencast.com/djMrnKe3sXWmz

Then we have another "shared" space and this is where we upload all of our photos from digital cameras, etc.

https://app.screencast.com/bSYmg5qETTwB3