Melbourne

My Windows computer is full because of Win 11 bloating (which for some people going over a certain percent of storage wiped their files) so I couldn't do it there and use the app. Using a Mac you still can't download more than 1000 files at once so I selected them manually and downloaded in batches of 50-300ish photos at a time.

And that's only for the ones of Melbcat because I don't want Apple to randomly lock access to them before they can be backed up. I'm not sure how it would go on Linux, maybe the same... no idea if there would be any incompatibilities but that old computer could be a good storage place. Bonus if I take out the wifi dongle and unplug the ethernet cable these companies literally can't access my stuff on there to mess with it. There's so much still to do but right now I just need to pull my finger out for the ones of baby girl.

I struggle so badly with the memory and organisation aspects of keeping things backed up (to the point I've lost entire hard drives worth of stuff repeatedly before cloud services and still haven't finished the work now) but I don't like how your own stuff is low key kept hostage, scanned for anything potentially offensive with notoriously inaccurate AI, and they have a million little ways to make it tricky or tedious to get your own files back. I won't even get into how Microsoft yoinked my files off my computer without consent, hid the option to back up to drive, and tried to extort money for more cloud storage.