Guides
How to get a complete copy of your data out of any major service, what you will get back, and where to put it afterwards. All free to read, no account.
Whole jobs
Start to finish: request it, open it, tidy it up, put it where it is going. Begin here if you know where you want to end up.
Move your iCloud photos to a NAS
Every photo and video Apple holds, on a drive in your own home, in dated folders, with the real capture dates written back in and the duplicates gone.
Move Google Photos into Immich
Your whole Google Photos library running on your own server, with the dates Google kept in sidecar files written into the photos themselves so Immich sorts them correctly.
Put everything on one external drive
Every service you use, merged into a single dated library on a disk you can hold, with duplicates across services removed and an index of what is in it.
Rescue your Snapchat Memories before they expire
The photos and videos behind years of Memories, saved as ordinary files you can open anywhere, rather than links that stop working.
Getting your data out
One service at a time, with what to expect and the parts people get wrong.
Where to keep it
Once your data is cleaned up, put it somewhere you control. These guides cover network drives, external disks, self-hosted servers, and getting a tidied library back into a cloud service.