“ All photos have been downloaded!” But only downloads 1 file

Hi, So i am referencing this issue. I updated to 1.7.1 and also created created an album with every file I have and call it todo Then I ran: C:\Users\PCserver>icloudpd -d Q:\Pictures —album todo -u [e-mail] -p ********

And it worked! I have all my files locally and I am very happy about it. I wanted to start automating this process so it runs every day. I used the following command, which removes the album requirement and adds a recent 100, thinking I can this every morning.

C:\Users\PCserver>icloudpd -d Q:\Pictures --recent 100 -u [e-mail] -p ********

2020-11-22 00:16:12 DEBUG    Authenticating...
2020-11-22 00:16:15 DEBUG    Looking up all photos and videos from album All Photos...
2020-11-22 00:16:15 INFO     Downloading 100 original photos and videos to Q:\Pictures ...
Q:\Pictures\2019\11\16\IMG_0535.MOV already exists.:   1%|4                                            | 1/100 [00:00<00:44,  2.22it/s]
2020-11-22 00:16:15 INFO     All photos have been downloaded!

But it goes back to downloading one random movie and then stops and I haven’t been able to figure it out. Is there a verbose mode or a way to find the logs so I can provide you the info you need?

Thank you for your time and your tool has been a game changer for my workflow

[woopiepoopie]

@johnny2678 So I figured it out, I think.

I have a large library, 40k photos and have migrated from iPhoto many years ago. Through all this, I had a really messy album structure.I did some clean up and I had a few albums called “All Photos”, I deleted all of them and now its working as it should!

I was running this command:

```
C:\Users\PCserver>icloudpd -d Q:\Pictures --recent 250 -u *** -p ***
2020-11-23 23:49:33 DEBUG    Authenticating...
2020-11-23 23:49:37 DEBUG    Looking up all photos and videos from album All Photos ...

So by default, it is looking for an album called “All Photos” and downloading from there, if there is no album with that name, then it will download literally, all photos.

I think its worth adding note to GitHub about this, once author can confirm what I am saying is correct

[menkej]

This script downloads photo albums respectively “All Photos” from iCloud - excluding shared albums. You understood ‘auto-delete’ correctly. We do not have an option to delete photos right now. This is “on purpose” as the idea of this script is mainly “backup” of (or exit strategy from…) Photos saved in iCloud.