Download from Recents, not All Photos about icloud_photos_downloader

[AndreyNikiforov]

icloudpd never redownloads file, so it is safe to run it without --until-found or --recent. These two parameters can be viewed as optimizations with "fine print".

Will using icloudpd without --until-found work for you?

[mythofechelon]

My test photo has an EXIF date of 2010/11/19, and I added it to my Photos on 2023/11/19. My library contains 29,471 items, and I've created 91 photos or videos since then (this is relevant).

While testing #715 (comment), I noticed that folder <path>\iCloud Photos Backup\2010 existed and only contained my test photo, so I deleted that folder and:

1. Ran icloudpd-latest-windows-amd64.exe --directory "<path>\iCloud Photos Backup" --username <username> --until-found 20 but nothing changed.
2. Ran icloudpd-latest-windows-amd64.exe --directory "<path>\iCloud Photos Backup" --username <username> --until-found 100 and, after only ~10 seconds, the 2010 folder and photo re-appeared.

So, it seems that it is actually downloading from Recents after all?

[AndreyNikiforov]

help for -until-found: "Download most recently added photos until we find x number of previously downloaded consecutive photos"

How many photos have you added to your collected after 2023/11/19 and how many of latest of them were already downloaded to your local drive? Answers to these questions will help you answer why -until-found 20 did not work, but --until-found 100 did.

[mythofechelon]

I understand why one worked and the other didn't - I was provided both examples of evidence of why I think it does actually download from Recents. This can be closed now, thanks.