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I have 30 GB of photos I want on my PC.

I wish to view those 30 GB of photos on my iPhone 4S anywhere that I have a Wi-Fi or 3G connection.

If I install iCloud on my Windows-based PC and "link" the program to my Pictures folder, is iCloud going to try to upload 30 GB of photos to the Internet - or will my iPhone simply "stream" the photos from my PC?

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From Apple:

Take a photo on an iOS device. Or import a photo from your digital camera to your computer. iCloud automatically pushes a copy of that photo over any available Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection to the Photos app on your iOS devices, iPhoto or Aperture on your Mac, and the Pictures Library on your PC.

But, it only stores 1000 photos for 30 days. It's really geared towards syncing new photos rather than trying to dump a library. You'd be better off swapping them on an external hard drive if you have 30gbs.

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But, it only stores 1000 photos for 30 days. It's really geared towards syncing new photos rather than trying to dump a library. You'd be better off swapping them on an external hard drive if you have 30gbs.

I basically want the 30 GB of photos that are on my PC to be viewable on my 16 GB iPhone any time I have a Wi-Fi or 3G connection (my PC will be turned on, of course).

Any suggestions?

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One of the simpler things would be to set up a simple HTTP server on your machine, then forward port 80 to it from your router. That way you'd be able to browse the photos with anything with a web browser. You could just browse the directories bare or install one of the various gallery webapps.

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I basically want the 30 GB of photos that are on my PC to be viewable on my 16 GB iPhone any time I have a Wi-Fi or 3G connection (my PC will be turned on, of course).

Any suggestions?

30GBs at what resolution? Assuming you "need" to do this, I'd run a script to crop them all to iPhone size and cut down the library size. Or... I'd buy a bigger iPhone.

You can certainly do back to my Mac, or a cloud service, but it's not going to be fun if you're trying to load multi-megabyte images frequently.

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One of the simpler things would be to set up a simple HTTP server on your machine, then forward port 80 to it from your router. That way you'd be able to browse the photos with anything with a web browser. You could just browse the directories bare or install one of the various gallery webapps.

Good idea!

Dropbox, you'll have to pay for 30gb of storage though.

I've never used it, but I have been hearing great things about Carbonite.

DropBox 50gig = $100.00/Year

Carbonite Unlimited = $59.00/Year

30GBs at what resolution? Assuming you "need" to do this, I'd run a script to crop them all to iPhone size and cut down the library size. Or... I'd buy a bigger iPhone.

You can certainly do back to my Mac, or a cloud service, but it's not going to be fun if you're trying to load multi-megabyte images frequently.

I have no intention of uploading 30 GB of photos when I can find a way to "stream" them to my iPhone (like I currently do with audio (Audiogalaxy) and video (Air Video)).

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For some reason I thought that iTunes had an option to downsample images before syncing them with your iPhone, but I must be mistaken because I'm not seeing it.

iCloud won't do what you want. Photostream is pretty simple in that it only stores the past 1000 photos that were uploaded to it. I hope that Apple keeps adding features to it. iPhoto for iOS is gimped currently because there is no cloud syncing options, and the syncing is one way only (Mac iPhoto or Windows -> iPhoto for iOS). If you actually use iPhoto for iOS to edit a photo the edit won't show up on your desktop w/o exporting the edit to your camera roll. Blah, sorry for the rant.

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