is there a QNAP/ Synology app/shortcut to just download all the iCloud photos at once?

Last updated on 29 Mar 2020 📧 Subscribe

I have a QNAP TS-453BT3 and I am trying to download all of my wife’s photos on to my QNAP.
Currently she has 30,000 photos on her iCloud, but iCloud only allows me to download 1,000 at a time, which is taking a VERY long time.
is there a QNAP app/short cut to just download all the photos at once?
Ideally, I would download it the evening before then wake up and organize them all the next morning.

On a MAC simply open Photos app and go to Preferences… then choose option to download Originals to this Mac

On a Windows download iCloud app – https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204283

Click on icloud icon on the task bar

Open Icloud settings

Enable Photos icloud sync

In order to download all photos and images directly on your Qnap or Synology NAS, change download folder location to your NAS drive.

If you haven’t mounted your NAS drives on on your computer, here is how to do it:

Windows – Qnap – Synology

MAC        – Qnap – Synology

 

If, for some reason app doesn’t allow you to download directly to the NAS network drive, then leave the local PC download folder in the settings. Then when all files are downloaded, move them to the network drive.

 

Go to “My Computer” and open iCloud Photos

Click Download Photos and Videos

 

This will automatically download all photos to your selected download folder.

That is it. Happy copying!

You can also explore Copytrans app https://www.copytrans.net/store/

They are promising following functionality:

Downloading all photos
Preserving album structure
Downloading originals
Incremental download of new photos (without creating duplicates)
Deleting all photos
Retrieving permanently deleted photos
Speed (depends on the Internet connection speed)


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