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Use of iCloud For Picture Storage | Any C1P Considerations?

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Greetings.

Background
I recently experienced a full MacBook Pro failure and had to restore to a new replacement MBP from prior backup. Due to some snags I experienced with the restore process, I'm now considering moving my Pictures Folder to iCloud. This folder is about 120 GB and contains my Capture On Catalog and about 4,000 raw images (Old Aperture and Lightroom Catalogs). I am a recent convert to Capture One Pro (Fuji shooter) I'm very pleased with C1P capabilities, Thus my C1P c catalog is not (yet) too large, only containing ~1,000 images or so. As I'm now fully standardized on C1P, I do expect it to grow over time, but not to a massive size. Also, for context, I'm a retired professional photographer and currently an IT professional, so I'm quite comfortable with digital photography, processing, and complex use of technology in general.

Inquiry
- With that said, I'd like to ask the C1P community for any feedback, considerations, etc in moving my Pictures Folder to iCloud vs retaining them locally on my laptop SSD Hard Drive?
- My internet connection is a reliable 100MBS up/down with very fast WIFI from home.
- As Adobe encourages customers to move their photo libraries to Adobe Cloud (which of course is an income generator for Adobe) migration of data to cloud hosting is becoming commonplace.

Request for Fedback
What does the C1P community think? Good idea, bad idea, OK idea (but with considerations)?

Let me know of any suggestions or experiences, which will help me decide to proceed or not.

Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays!
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  • cdc
    Would you be doing this for backup purposes only or everything lives on the cloud type of situation?

    As you know Adobe has their own cloud services an ecosystem and they seem to be pushing for cloud based backup & editing & everything. They implement the use of smart previews which makes their cloud experience rather smooth and quick in my experience, in fact culling images using the browser based LR online can be faster than using LR classic with locally stored images.

    Capture One can't compete with that, they don't offer any cloud services that I know of. I don't know how well C1 would work accessing a catalog from the cloud but something tells me it could end up being troublesome. If you want the fastest experience with C1 store your images locally then perhaps move them to the cloud, an external drive, or both, after you're done working with them.
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  • Emile Gregoire
    I have my Pictures and Desktop folders synched with iCloud and it works perfectly as a cloud-type backup solution. It does however not free up disk space if that's your goal, as they'll simply reside both on your ssd or harddisk *and* in the cloud. I hope in the future Apple will provide options to selectively keep folders in the cloud only, but that day hasn't yet come...
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Hi Everyone and thanks for the comments and suggestions!

    It looks like it will be "possible" to use C1P with a pictures folder that's primarily hosted on iCloud.

    I was aware that there would be a local copy of all image files on my MBP, that syncs up to iCloud for with any changes.

    I do agree that there could be a C1P performance/usability consideration for preview generation.

    I backup my images to an external SSD currently, which saved the day last week when my MBP died.

    I'll think about this some more before acting.

    We'll see if there is any other feedback.

    Thanks again.
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  • Emile Gregoire
    I haven’t noticed any performance penalty as the files reside on your ssd. The only difference is they are uploaded in the background to iCloud. I have about 200Gb of photos synced that way and it works faultlessly.
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  • Jochen Schmidt
    I did store all my sessions in a Dropbox Pro folder. That way I could manually select a session to be "online only". Or download it by switching from "online only" to "local". If I just wanted to access a RAW or output/ photo I just could access them using the finder.

    I dropped Dropbox (duh!) because the kernel extension did bad things to my system. Now I'm using Resilio Sync - which is a BitTorrent based sync app which also supports folders with partial online/offline sync. It is a one time pay. The files are stored on an ssd at my iMac and synced with all devices syncing that folder (iPad Pro, iPhone). Resilio Sync exists also for some NAS so you could add a NAS for backup purposes
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  • Keith Reeder
    [quote="Ice9ine" wrote:

    - As Adobe encourages customers to move their photo libraries to Adobe Cloud (which of course is an income generator for Adobe)

    Wow! Imagine that - a business, doing things to make money...

    🤓
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  • Gregory Edge
    Why would you rely on a cloud to store your files? I would use a cloud for backup but not my main file storage. If the internet is down you can't get to your stuff.

    Buy yourself a good external drive with Thunderbolt 3 and use that. Then use a cloud service to back things up.

    I have been happy with Backblaze for backup. In addition I take advantage of my Amazon Prime membership and store a second copy of my library there for just in case.
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