Online picture storage - not iCloud

[David Martin]

I'm currently using iCloud because I had a Mac. It really is pants - slow to upload, slow to do anything really, poorly searchable.

Any other solutions for a simple 'dump the images onto the cloud' storage that isn't a public facing gallery? ie. not Flickr. Happy to pay modest amounts. It would be good to have it merge reasonably seamlessly as a desktop drive on PC/Mac/Linux

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[PaulF]

Do you want a gallery or simply file storage?

If the latter then why not Dropbox? Looks like a folder in a Windows and Mac, don't know about Linux

[David Martin]

It shouldn't require the same amount of space on my local disk, which is a requirement for Dropbox (IIRC)

[RibbleRouser]

Google Photos ?

[bumper]

I know you didn't want Flickr but just start a new account and make everything private. You can choose who you share pics with if they're family or work photos.


I hate Flickr with a passion but I use it to suit my needs. I've got hundreds of private photos on my account, never found them anywhere else so they do stay private.

[bumper]

I've not used it but I've just checked, there's unlimited storage for photos on my Amazon account. I think you have to be a prime member.

[David Martin]

20GB is not enough. I'll look at the amazon offering. I am a prime member.

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[mike]

I gave up on online storage for photos I might need to access quickly, I use an external hard drive at home and smart previews in lightroom to keep a 'copy' on my laptop which I can view or work on while I'm away - a library of 60k photos and videos is 1.5TB on the hard drive but only 30gb ('only' ) on the hard drive.   

nb- I can only work on them within lightroom, not photoshop or any other external editor.

[T42]

Verizon just took over Yahoo, hence Flickr.  Suggestion is that they might junk it.

I've been using PBase since 2003. Costs ~$20 p.a., you can do your own CSS, no adverts. Not as glitzy as Flickr but adequate.

[geraldc]

I use google drive, it's linked to google photo, it's $9.99 a month for 1 tb. The google photo search is astounding, I can type "dog" and it will search for images of dogs I've taken, also face recognition, location recognition, and it can auto create albums based on when a photo was taken and where my mobile phone said I was at the time, if the photos themselves don't have GPS data.