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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
Oh, I know it. There’s something wrong with me psychologically--I’m a people pleaser. I imagine they’ve been shot down by their own kids, so I feel like the last resort. Hopefully I can just install the app, let it do the job, and get the hell out of there.
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Don't tell them about an app. I think it costs money, so I assume they'll refuse to pay that too. If it deletes the wrong thing, you gave a bad referral and you're to blame.
Tread carefully. It's not the initial effort that always annoys me, it's the refusal of responsibility and then a blame game that someone else screwed up, not them. Delete the wrong thing that's not recoverable and they'll blame you.
Tell them what they're asking is not possible without the risk of losing photos. It's stupid you have to do things like this, but basically, you have to notify them of the risks, have them say they give consent and are aware/accept the risks. Otherwise, family gatherings get weird.
If they consent to something as simple as installing an app to clean up, cool. Clearing out to a drive works, but be careful about the use of the word clearing out vs backing up. On a drive, you risk losing redundancy on both phone and iCloud if new media won't have space to back up on iCloud, so media lost if phone is lost/failure. Or so some media could be lost later on if the drive fails and it's no longer on the phone or iCloud.
I and family members have lost media in this manner when transitioning the files. It's not worth saving the extra few hundred bucks at all and/or any form of momentary risk of losing it if the media is potentially priceless.
App for deleting similar photos en masse?
