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The hard part is if you have a lot of content on icloud. Ive yet to find a reliable way to pull content from icloud locally. Apples first party download service doesnt really work for large icloud accounts, the downloads just fail to complete and you have tens or hundreds of gb to download. Ive tried third party command line tools and they silently crash after a couple dozen files, as in they will just hang until I notice they have failed so I cant just automate something to restart the script after fail. I’m actually at a loss here how to migrate from icloud.


Mine is entirely sync'ed to my mac. I just literally run iCloud off and I have everything local.


Whenever I try and sync the photos to the mac photos app it crashes to desktop probably because I have like 60gb of unsynced photos.


That’s terrible. My library is 100GB and works fine so may be worth trashing the machine and trying again when freshly installed.


So you have to buy a Mac to get your files?


I already have a Mac. I'm trying to get rid of it.

You can download icloud for windows as well. And slowly download shit off the web UI.


Web ui is broken the downloads always error out for large icloud accounts in my experience.




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