• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Once every 6 months?

    So at any one time you could lose 6 months of photos?

    Or do you have a regular sync to somewhere, and this is just space freeing?

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      7 months ago

      I’m not deleting them. They’re uploaded to the cloud at the time of creation. I also move them off my phone to my computer every 6 months or so - I do this just in case the upload to the cloud has ever silently failed. I deduplicate the images, so I don’t have multiple versions of the same image with different file names.

      For me it’s not entirely about space. I rarely let the device get more than 2/3rds full. It’s also about speed. If I want to pull a photo/video off my phone, it seems sluggish when there are thousandths of files in that one directory.