Right. Well.
After an hour and a half I think I'm 80% sure I now have all my photos and voice memos off my Apple devices / iCloud and onto an external HDD.
Not without massive effort. Not without metadata loss. Not fully sure.
And all this because iCloud's tier system is a massive jump from "£3/m for 200Gb" which I'm right on the edge of, to the next level.
And because I can't fit the photos onto my laptop as well as my files, so need it on an external drive.
Matt Wilcox
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2026-01-03 16:30:04 UTC
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