I’ve been slowly converting my digital life over to Apple and one of the sticking points is a giant mess of photos that I have backed up in OneDrive. Some are organized and some are not, there are many duplicates, a few Zip files, and older ones may not have EXIF data.

I’m downloading them all to a Windows PC (I don’t have a Mac, only an iPhone and iPad Pro) and then will be importing them to iCloud via the web. (Actually, I heard that connecting my phone via USB and transferring them that way is a better method.)

Any advice or tips, or software suggestion? Here’s my basic plan:

  1. Download all photos.
  2. Try to organize them at least into year folders.
  3. Deduplicate with (?) software.
  4. Use (?) software to make sure all photos have dates in EXIF data.
  5. Upload to iCloud.

So the end result is not just to have the photos organized on my PC but to have them in iCloud for viewing and sharing.

BTW, if this would be better served on one of the photography subreddits please let me know… which one.

  • UkiMan309OPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Thanks. I’ve been thinking of getting a mini. I’m a little confused though. When you say you have photos on external drives so they don’t take up space on the mini, are they always connected? Or do you mean they’re uploaded to iCloud?