Photo - Category - Mayuniverse https://mayuniverse.net/en/categories/photo/ Photo - Category - Mayuniverse Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-USFri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0800 Photos Should Belong to Users, Not Cloud Platforms https://mayuniverse.net/en/posts/photo/stream-product-philosophy/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0800 Author https://mayuniverse.net/en/posts/photo/stream-product-philosophy/ Photos are personal data. They are also personal memory.

Stream starts from a clear belief:

Users should not have to depend on one cloud platform just to get a good photo experience.

]]> How to Merge and Deduplicate Photos Between Your Phone and NAS https://mayuniverse.net/en/posts/photo/merge-deduplicate-photos-phone-nas/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:32:49 +0800 Author https://mayuniverse.net/en/posts/photo/merge-deduplicate-photos-phone-nas/ (Without Uploading Everything to the Cloud)

TL;DR: This guide shows how to merge and deduplicate photos across your phone and NAS (WebDAV), plus self-hosted libraries like Immich/PhotoPrism—without uploading everything to a cloud service. You’ll connect sources in place, review duplicates, and clean up safely on the original storage.

If you store photos both on your phone and on a NAS, you’ve probably run into this problem:

  • The same photos exist on your phone, your NAS, and backups
  • Files were copied multiple times over the years
  • Storage keeps growing, but you’re not sure what’s safe to delete
  • Most photo apps assume one cloud library, not multiple sources

What you actually need:

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