Currently all my photos/videos are all stored in iCloud. I want to move
these to my Nextcloud instance.
The Nextcloud iOS app does have a feature to automatically transfer an
entire iCloud library to Nextcloud, but it's broken right now (and has
been for several months, see this
issue). Unfortunately it
doesn't look like the iOS app developers are going to fix this any time
soon.
Instead, I downloaded my photos/videos from privacy.apple.com, and I now
have them all in archives. But their structure is all all over the
place. I don't think I can use a hacked-together script to convert them
to a sane folder/file structure because nothing is dated.
For example, I would want a simple structure like
/{year}/{month}/{day}/{images}. But the iCloud archive's format is
something like /Photos/{images}. Nothing is dated.
Any ideas about what I could do? It looks like my only options are just
to have all my old photos in an esoteric folder/file structure, and have
new photos/videos properly sorted. But that isn't ideal.
The only other option is to hold out hope that Apple eventually add an option, as they recently added a way to transfer to Google Photos. But I am not expecting them to add support for Nextcloud.
A few years ago (2017?) I decided I would move messenger apps. The aim (and what I’ve achieved) was all my messaging going through a secure, private app.
In 2017, Signal really was the only option. Element (Riot, back then) was really bad and didn’t feature e2ee (which only got enabled by default last year!). XMPP was and remains difficult to use (not even many people here use it, how could I expect “normal people” to use it?)
I made the choice to use Signal, and I don’t regret it. I only regret that it has taken until now that we are starting to see a glimmer of a real competitor, in the form of Matrix. But a really competitor to Whatsapp and the like, back in 2017, just didn’t exist outside of Signal.