If someone has some photos imported into Photos on a Mac, what's the
simplest way to send a few of them to somebody else? I think you can select
them and Share... but not sure what the best route is from there. Email is
the obvious, but there are size limits which makes it quite limitng. Is
there any kind of plugin for Photos that will upload them somewhere and
allow somebody else to view them?

The photos don't want to be public, so we aren't talking Instagram etc.
iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too
many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
use it without sync?

Any suggestions for other services?

Thanks
Theo

On 23/08/2022 20:25, Theo wrote:
> If someone has some photos imported into Photos on a Mac, what's the
> simplest way to send a few of them to somebody else? I think you can select
> them and Share... but not sure what the best route is from there. Email is
> the obvious, but there are size limits which makes it quite limitng. Is
> there any kind of plugin for Photos that will upload them somewhere and
> allow somebody else to view them?
>
> The photos don't want to be public, so we aren't talking Instagram etc.
> iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too
> many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
> use it without sync?
>
> Any suggestions for other services?
>

<https://wetransfer.com> any good for you?

--
Graeme Wall
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On 23 Aug 2022 at 20:25:50 BST, "Theo"
<theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> If someone has some photos imported into Photos on a Mac, what's the
> simplest way to send a few of them to somebody else? I think you can select
> them and Share... but not sure what the best route is from there. Email is
> the obvious, but there are size limits which makes it quite limitng. Is
> there any kind of plugin for Photos that will upload them somewhere and
> allow somebody else to view them?
>
> The photos don't want to be public, so we aren't talking Instagram etc.
> iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too
> many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
> use it without sync?
>

If you select a too-large bundle of items from Photos and Share as...
email, Mail will offer to send them "using Mail Drop" which actually
uploads them to iCloud and puts a link in the email. Give that a test
run.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203093

Cheers - Jaimie

--
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Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> If someone has some photos imported into Photos on a Mac, what's the
> simplest way to send a few of them to somebody else? I think you can select
> them and Share... but not sure what the best route is from there. Email is
> the obvious, but there are size limits which makes it quite limitng. Is
> there any kind of plugin for Photos that will upload them somewhere and
> allow somebody else to view them?
>
> The photos don't want to be public, so we aren't talking Instagram etc.
> iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too
> many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
> use it without sync?
>
> Any suggestions for other services?
>
> Thanks
> Theo

Just some additional comments.

As others have mentioned, you can use the ‘share’ menu item, and then
select a preferred method. If the other person is nearby then ‘Airdrop’
works well (I use that a lot here).

Syncing doesn’t work for others, it only works within a single Apple ID
account, although you can share from this, the images are reduced
resolution.

Or you can export them, and use any one of the other cloud sharing systems
that are still available. Although beware that many are being dropped now,
or reducing free storage space, so might not be any better than email.

--
Andy H

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
> If you select a too-large bundle of items from Photos and Share as...
> email, Mail will offer to send them "using Mail Drop" which actually
> uploads them to iCloud and puts a link in the email. Give that a test
> run.
>
> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203093

Ah thanks. I heard Google did that for Gmail but wasn't aware it worked for
Mail.app + iCloud. I'll give that a go.

Theo

On 23 Aug 2022 at 20:25:50 BST, Theo wrote:

> iCloud might be an option, although iCloud sync would be far too much (too
> many existing photos and not enough internet bandwidth) - can you
> use it without sync?

Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
backup and access anywhere?

(On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
Photos).

--
Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
> Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
> backup and access anywhere?
>
> (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
> Photos).

At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very
long time...

Theo

On 24 Aug 2022 at 12:27:53 BST, Theo wrote:

> RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>> Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
>> backup and access anywhere?
>>
>> (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
>> Photos).
>
> At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very
> long time...
>

Good grief. I didn't know that that was still a thing.

--
Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

On 24/08/2022 13:11, RJH wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2022 at 12:27:53 BST, Theo wrote:
>
>> RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>>> Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
>>> backup and access anywhere?
>>>
>>> (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
>>> Photos).
>>
>> At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very
>> long time...
>>
>
> Good grief. I didn't know that that was still a thing.
>
>

Sneakernet?

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read.

RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2022 at 12:27:53 BST, Theo wrote:
>
> > RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
> >> Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
> >> backup and access anywhere?
> >>
> >> (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
> >> Photos).
> >
> > At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very
> > long time...
> >
>
> Good grief. I didn't know that that was still a thing.

I did a line test... it's max 1.28Mbps upload speed. Better, but that's only
about 13GB per day.

Faster products are available, but why pay for more than classic ADSL if you
don't need it? VDSL would only get about 6Mbps upload anyway.

Theo

On 24/08/2022 12:27, Theo wrote:
> RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>> Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
>> backup and access anywhere?
>>
>> (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
>> Photos).
>
> At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very
> long time...

Only if you sync all photos. Sharing (in Photos) just the ones you want
to share will take the same length of time as sending the same selection
by email. Either way, the photos have to be uploaded by your machine at
some point.

--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey, England

On 24 Aug 2022 at 15:34:52 BST, Theo wrote:

> RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>> On 24 Aug 2022 at 12:27:53 BST, Theo wrote:
>>
>>> RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>>>> Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
>>>> backup and access anywhere?
>>>>
>>>> (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
>>>> Photos).
>>>
>>> At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very
>>> long time...
>>>
>>
>> Good grief. I didn't know that that was still a thing.
>
> I did a line test... it's max 1.28Mbps upload speed. Better, but that's only
> about 13GB per day.
>

Well, could be worse ;-). I think mine's about 6Mbps. I'd still think about
the iCloud route if I were you. Depending on your library size - it might mean
paying though if you go above the 50GB 'free' limit. IME it's fairly seemless,
and my library (120GB) rebuilt over what seemed like weeks quite seamlessly.

> Faster products are available, but why pay for more than classic ADSL if you
> don't need it? VDSL would only get about 6Mbps upload anyway.
>

Of course. I don't often need the c.10MB/s download speed of mine but it's
handy when I do. That said I certainly don't need (or want) any faster.

--
Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

On 25/08/2022 04:06, RJH wrote:
>
> Well, could be worse ;-). I think mine's about 6Mbps. I'd still think about
> the iCloud route if I were you. Depending on your library size - it might mean
> paying though if you go above the 50GB 'free' limit. IME it's fairly seemless,
> and my library (120GB) rebuilt over what seemed like weeks quite seamlessly.
>
Agreed.
The whole benefit of icloud is that it happens automatically in the background
so things are available on whatever device you want whenever you want.
The only drawback is the transfer time when you want something on a different
device immediately and, for that you can use air-drop.

On 25/08/2022 00:01, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> On 24/08/2022 12:27, Theo wrote:
>> RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>>> Probably too much for this one use, but why not set up iCloud for future use,
>>> backup and access anywhere?
>>>
>>> (On the 'too many photos', you can easily set up albums to share within
>>> Photos).
>>
>> At 500kbps upload speed I think any cloud sync is going to take a very very
>> long time...
>
> Only if you sync all photos. Sharing (in Photos) just the ones you want to
> share will take the same length of time as sending the same selection by
> email. Either way, the photos have to be uploaded by your machine at some point.
>
Set it to sync overnight or when your away for the weekend...