I’m still having trouble. I have over 8000 photos and when I tried to import them I didn’t get all of them transferred. I think only about 250 were transferred. I’m so frustrated.

too much fecking waffle..not enough help for an old person on how to upload photos.

I loved this, thank you! I've been wanting to organise my photos for quite some time now but have dreaded having to learn yet another complicated application to do so. This one looks really quite intuitive, so I will definitely give it a go. And by the way, I thought you explained all this really well. Cheers!

Hello I'm looking to transfer only the pictures that haven't been previously uploaded. When I try to import the program imports every picture This isn't ideal because I have about 14000 pictures and it takes unnecessary long time. Any help? Thanks

Thank you for you honest review, I feel like this product is really unnecessary, and predatory towards older people who are less tech savvy. You could get a USB thumbdrive for your phone that's smaller, and more stylish, or just hook your phone directly to your computer, then to a either a thumb drive, or a flash card. They charge A LOT for what is essentially: A thumbdrive, an adapter, and a dodgy piece of crapper-ware software.

Thank you so much! I have been trying to figure out how to transfer my pictures to my computer and have tried all sorts of sites. Yours worked perfectly!

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I like the live photos - bcuz it takes care of blinks and all - How about taking the live photos - and picking the shots Then how can u convert without a screen shot ?

Good Info

I take photos of birds with a Nikon. I process them and the best I put into the icloud photos on my pc. I give each photo a name that includes the bird species and date, say 'Robin 24 June 2024.jpg' . My photos app has the name of the bird in the filename but you cannot search for that. You put into photos app search say Robin but it cannot find the Robin photos. It seems the simplest thing in the world to have a system search file names but the iphone nor ipad can do it. No mention of that in ios 18.

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thank you

Thank you for your information. I'm afraid that this program will not be for me. I am sure that it will confuse me, and that is not what I need-I have vascular Dementia, so I cannot deal with convoluted operating systems. It's a pity, though, because it looks fantastic!

my internal folder says its empty even though itunes says my phone is over full

Amazon Photos - if I want to share, should I use folders or Albums?

This was so helpful and very well explained.

Many thanks for this Heads-Up! Given the upcoming changes, I wonder if this also means there will be a corresponding update of Mac OS Photos app.

Loving your videos, but this one seems really out of touch. A new computer just for photos to get started? That is not necessary and I would argue a 600 dollar printer is not needed to get started either. People can get started with what they have, and maybe some photo boxes that are under $50 dollars. Those of us that dont have an extra 5k dollars sitting around for a good laptop, printer, forever storage, or whatever can still get a ling ways on your system organizing the print pictures in our show boxes or photo boxes we already have, and use our 5 year old laptop to start organizing the digital ones. I'm more likely to order archival boxes and an external harddrive before I order a new computer and a printer. Both for less than $300 dollars. Will it take me awhile if I have to use the scanner at the library, you bet, but by that point Ill likely see if I can borrow a home one from the library of things at our home library or buy a bit slower one that isn't a months rent. I think your system is great, but I really worry about people hearing this and not even getting started.

Is there a reason to not just use the tree at the left when you are moving pictures and folders around instead of a second window?

You have mentioned in earlier videos sorting stuff into categories to pull out the info pictures or friendship pictures, do you go through the same process for those?

I do it chronologically -> years -> months and if we have a big event/trip I put them in a separate folder within the year. I have a question how to deal with the photos when you don't know the exact year? You just put them in "I believe this is this decade"?

Interesting list but i have some concerns. 1) terms of service - where are some of these applications storing your data and what rights are you giving them by default to view and use your images; 2) long term compartability and support--Picassa is a good example. You invest a great deal of time organizing a library and suddenly the application is abandoned or replaced; 3) Interoperability and compatability with other formats or applications--this is really important when building a catalog. Lets say that you have invested a ton of time over many years adding keywords and descriptive metadata to your image database and then for one reason or another you want to migrate your library to another service. Can any other application seemlessly import all that data with your photos, or will all that work be lost?; 4) Is anyone else even going to want this material? While it may be important to us, unless it is well organized, easy to access, and requires no special maintenance or cost, it may wind up being as much of a burden and a blessing to others. Anyway, a few concerns worth considering.

Not s fan of the matrix. 😢

Do you have a good link for the photo boxes you use?

I have found it very frustrating how Google duplicates things so I delete blurry photos one place, but since they all backed up to the cloud it just deletes off the device, so I have to go to all devices and it seems like they just keep coming back.

Ive had multiple computers crash or become corrupted in various ways.

I'm interested in keywords; that's how I mainly find what I'm looking for at the moment, (in Exposure where I don't find keywords say to use or control). Mylio also has keywords, right? And will also generate AI keywords? Are they separate? Sorry, lots of questions!

Yes please on the folder structure video! Did you wind up making it?

Oh wow, I kinda already pulled stuff to 1 location other than the stuff that needs scanned.

I have garden progress/journal photos. I am currently pasting into google sheets spreadsheet with my notes, but I don't know if that is going to break once the pictures are outside of my phone or google drive? I also have pictures noting state of things like bruising on my broken foot or a patch of eczema to see changes over time as I adjust supplements or heal in the case of the foot that so far I just scroll back through, but not sure of a good way to store and access those? Do you just break down your folders by year, then category, do family in 1 folder, scrapbooking friends in 1 folder, and olympics in 1 folder? Or do you kick everything outside of family to a completely different location?

I used to have a desktop computer that had slideshow as the screensaver. My kids and I loved watching the screensaver and I would tell them about the pictures. Hoping to get things organized and have at least 1 electronic photo frame that we can watch and discuss who is in there and what was going on. I started consolidating SD cards and thumb drives first, and got started on it, but there were barely any of my daughter or my Mom, and a lot of the ones with my Dad were older because they were from his funeral. I would love to have them all digitized, and the physical copies stored better (currently in several totes, trunks, and at least 1 cardboard box that our cat likes to chew on). I guess it boils down to the following: 1. Consolidate and digitize photo and video storage to 1 place and then also have at least 1 backup. 2. Have the physical pictures stored in an organized way and if there are stories about them, have notes explaining what was going on as well as who is in the pictures (I would like both physical and digital copies noted if possible). 3. Have systems in place to backup and add physical, digital etc on a regular basis so that there aren't huge quantities to be wondered about when I'm gone or lost in the event of a disaster like fire, stolen or broken phone, or flood. 4. After I am working through mine, I would like the viewing/processing of new photos to become a family activity so my kids get in the habit and maybe we can work through the backlog Grandma had from the different estates and incorporate those photos and stories into the various genealogy records for the family trees and also have them in a format that can be shared with other family members.

Thank you so much! this is soooooo helpful!

Thank you.

I’m 100% in the chronological camp!

Just like the second last comment by @llf4674 said when I'm copying 2019 photos from my iPhone to my PC, it shows today's date as created and March's date as modified. However when I check the properties of the original files in iPhone DCIM folder in Windows it is showing the correct dates. How can I keep the actual created dates? As that is very important for me.

Whenever I copy the folder from my phone and transfer it onto another file, it starts well but after a while it just stops and when I look in the new folder not all of the pictures are there. I don't know the reason for this.

I used to transfer this way but now the original date of when the photo is taken is not transferring over to the pc. When the photo is copies over to the PC, the “created” date becomes the date when the photo was copied over, NOT the original date taken. Can u pls advise how to fix this? New computer and iphone is 13

This is confusing for me. If I don’t want to use Gallery can I delete the file ?

I do a lot of family history so have photos that were taken decades or centuries ago but scanned, usually more than once as tech improved, on various dates so chronological doesn’t work. Often the date the image was taken isn’t known either. I also have thousands of scanned or downloaded documents. It’s a constant problem of how to organise - which has changed over the decades as computers improve and I keep running out of storage - it’s never enough, even though my last hard drive is 5 terabytes. Instead of organising by date, I use the name of the image to let the computer sort things initially then have a sub folder for each family group. The name starts with the family name in capitals, then the first names of the individuals, capitals for direct ancestors, lower case for others, with birth date for people with same name (eg 5 generations of John Sutton’s plus cousins who used the same naming patterns) or just ‘family’ for groups, the rest of the name depend on what info is available preferably event next, then date, place etc and importantly, source if known. So much easier now, when names and documents can be almost infinite, to back in the early days when names were a max of 6 letters and a document would only hold one chapter of a book. Of course any other, especially less time consuming, suggestions would be VERY welcome. Family hard copy photos are sorted by individual child and their family if it’s just one person so they can be handed over to the next generation when I’m gone. The rest is a mess of chronological, events and thousands of scanned slides my father took going back almost a century. Unfortunately the slides are deteriorating faster than the prints. I don’t think I have enough life left to ever get it all sorted!

thank you for the excellent tutorial very helpful

I forgot to mention I have an iPhone 13. When I saw the iPhone icon on my computer it did not show any internal storage like in your video. How can I download also my files (in folders) from my iPhone? I have switched from an android to iPhone and should have never done that. Now I am stuck with it. Please help me. I am so frustrated.

I have all my pictures in folders on my iPhone. I want to download my FOLDERS onto my PC and not have to put them into folders on my PC again. Is that possible?

I completely agree! I’ve been organizing photos (mine & others) for 20 years. Chronological folders on your computer with redundant back ups to external hard drives and the cloud is the absolute best and easiest way to go!

I have so many duplicates! My wife never erases her fotos so when I download he photos I always get the duplicates!

I don't see the link for research calls.

Is there a way to change all the HEIC files to JPG? I just found out about the heic today. Is this going to be an issue or should I just keep them as is. I need to clean up my phone because it is full and I want to add them to a Jamaica folder on FB albums.

Your "Not in an Album" smart album was the tool I need but...... "Photo" "is not" "in any" is not an option in Mac Studio. "In any" is not a clickable choice.

Great video, thank you taking the time and efforts to share the information😊 Question, once photos are on the storage device, can yhe be accessed individually to put on fb or used in blogs etc? If so, are all photos reloaded to computer or phone just to access a few at a time? TY

Hi Mollie, I've been away from this for about a year when you were all hot and bothered about Forever. Have you switched favourites or do you see this as just an alternative? Also since I want to see my photos on my TV, does Mylio have an app for smart TV's. Dave.🙂