Mylio Photos – Cashback, Rebates & Rewards

Paid for a subscription hoping that this would be a great app to aggregate all of my photos. However, there are two two serious non-Mylio issues that will keep me from renewing. First, there is no widely used standard EXIF or otherwise, for face recognition. I have a hundred or more faces ID'd in more thousands of Google photos, and I don't want to go through this exercise again. But more problematic is that exporting Google photos for import into Mylio involves a "takeout" from google photos of many multi-Gb zip files with no imbedded EXIF data, so e.g., your location data and camera info is lost! Well, not completely lost as it's exported in a json file that Mylio does not import. So I stopped using Mylio.

I was really loving Mylio and the idea of it backing up my photos into one place was great as I have a truly huge collection. The Face Recognition is amongst the best I have come across so far too. But alas, I found all my drives filling up and that really was strange and Mylio turned out to be the culprit. I thought I had it setup to save to one place but I found every drive both inside and attached to my laptop had grown a Mylio directory and Mylio was in the process of choking each one. I tried to work out how to stop it but after a fair bit of googling and reading the Mylio helpfiles I gave up and deleted it and every Mylio directory I could find. I got the 4 SSD's (10tb's total) in my laptop back into use and a lot of space on the 4 external drives I had connected that weren't the one I thought I had allocated to be the backup drive. Overall I think I got about 14tb's back as Mylio was also backing up my backups which was probably my own silly fault I would give it 5 stars if that hadn't happened and just might try it again and be way more careful with the setup because I know what to look out for now. So if you are going to try it, set it up very carefully and point it at 1 drive that has space for all your images. Best to go buy yourself a new external or network drive for the purpose.