04-23-2015, 04:50 PM
Decided to jump in head first with the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library.
My Photo library is about 50 to 60GB (almost 19,000 pictures).
So, the 99 cent 20GB plan is too small, but the $4 200 GB plan is overkill. Had to opt for this plan if I wanted all my photos up in space.
Started the upload last night. It totally saturates your bandwidth, so you need to pause it if you actually have to get things done online. My plan is to let it run each night while the family is sleeping and pause it in the morning before I leave for work.
For the first night (last night), it uploaded about 5,500 pictures. So, I imagine this will take several nights to complete.
But, it will be nice to have all photos accessible from any device at any time with edits/deletes also being reflected universally.
However, I wish there was a way for this to work with my entire family and not just my iCloud account (ie, Family Sharing). That is what I'm going to look into now.
My Photo library is about 50 to 60GB (almost 19,000 pictures).
So, the 99 cent 20GB plan is too small, but the $4 200 GB plan is overkill. Had to opt for this plan if I wanted all my photos up in space.
Started the upload last night. It totally saturates your bandwidth, so you need to pause it if you actually have to get things done online. My plan is to let it run each night while the family is sleeping and pause it in the morning before I leave for work.
For the first night (last night), it uploaded about 5,500 pictures. So, I imagine this will take several nights to complete.
But, it will be nice to have all photos accessible from any device at any time with edits/deletes also being reflected universally.
However, I wish there was a way for this to work with my entire family and not just my iCloud account (ie, Family Sharing). That is what I'm going to look into now.