How to consolidate multiple photo storage into one?

May 3, 2015 11:32 AM

I have pictures on Flickr, google photos, amazon prime, icloud and Smugmug. What's the best way to consolidate and migrate all of these into one primary storage. I don't mind paying and the migration tool ideally would work on chrome and mobile. Thanks!
posted by adverse_conditions to Technology (1 answer total)

Are you asking how to consolidate from those n services into just one of them? If so, do you have a strong preference/requirement for which one? A more specific answer will depend on the "target" service, since their APIs (the mechanism used by tools to interact with them) are all distinct.

I would suggest your best bet, if possible, is to first consolidate all your pictures "locally" -- whether that's literally a machine you can physically access (e.g. your laptop or desktop), or onto a hosted machine that you control (e.g. a box in the cloud that you have shell access to). From there, you can clean up (remove duplicates, decide if you really want all of those photos, etc), and upload the whole thing to your single service of choice. Or perhaps just having all your photos downloaded to a single machine of your own is sufficient?
posted by kanuck at 11:27 AM on May 5, 2015