PhotoVideoBackup: SSD Transfer

PhotoVideoBackup: SSD Transfer

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  • Released
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  • April 13, 2026
  • August 31, 2026

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PhotoVideoBackup transfers your photos and videos from your iPhone directly to an external SSD over USB-C fast, private, and offline. No cloud. No subscription. No middleman. WHY PHOTOVIDEOBACKUP? Most backup solutions send your files to a cloud server you don't control. PhotoVideoBackup sends them straight to your drive. Your memories stay yours. HOW IT WORKS 1. Plug in your USB-C SSD 2. Select the destination folder once 3. Tap Backup — done Access is preserved across launches via secure bookmarks. You never have to pick the folder again. FREE FEATURES - Back up your iPhone Photos Library (photos & videos) - Single SSD destination - Real-time progress with file-by-file status - Full backup report: copied, skipped, failed, duration - History of all past backup sessions PRO FEATURES — one-time $4.99 - Add external sources: SD cards, USB drives, Insta360, DJI, Blackmagic cameras, and more - Mirror backup to a second SSD simultaneously - Perfect for photographers and videographers who shoot on multiple devices No subscription. Pay once. Use forever. PRIVACY PhotoVideoBackup does not collect, transmit, or store any of your data. Everything stays on your device and your drive.
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What's New in PhotoVideoBackup

2.5.0

August 31, 2026

| 2.5.0 | 46 | 2026-08-28 | Feature | **Clearer backup progress, and no more duplicate files in a folder.** Two things. **(1) Visibility.** Tapping a backup button now gives an *instant* acknowledgment — the progress card appears immediately, even before the destinations are resolved (previously the card only showed after the NAS was contacted, so the tap felt ignored). During the long, previously-opaque preparation, a real status is shown: **"Analyzing source…"** with a **live count of files found**, replacing the generic "Initializing…" spinner — so you can see the app is working even before the first file is copied. And the in-progress card is **pinned so it is always visible** without scrolling past the destinations and sources. Implemented with a `BackupPhase` (`preparing → scanning → copying`) on `DashboardViewModel`, a throttled scan-count callback funneled through `MediaScanner.mediaFile` / `PHLibraryScanner`, and a `.safeAreaInset(edge:.bottom)` progress card. **(2) Deduplication.** A new cascade level (`existingLocalTwinPath`) scans the actual destination folder for a **byte-identical file under a different name** before copying — size is the free filter, SHA-256 the confirmation — so a folder never ends up with two physical copies of the same content *regardless of how the first copy got there* (this app, an older version, or a Finder copy). This fixes the field report of `Insta360LunaUltra.mp4` / `Insta360LunaUltra-1.mp4` both landing on the SSD: the twin was left there by a prior transfer the SHA index never knew, so the identical file was re-copied. Applies to both engines; a covered target also backfills the SHA index so the next run skips it via the cheap index path. Pure function, unit-tested by `TwinDedupTests`. Also: the **Diagnostic** log button now emails with the same routable `[Support:PhotoVideoBackup]` subject + `SUPPORT-META` block as Contact Support (`AppConstants.diagnosticMailtoURL`), so log sends triage automatically like any other request. **(3) Faster start for SD-card / camera backups.** Reading each file's capture date (EXIF / video-container metadata) was the slow part of preparing an external-source backup — done up front for every file before the first copy. It is now **deferred**: the scan reads only cheap file info and the capture date is resolved per-file inside the copy loop, so the scan is near-instant and the first file starts almost immediately (measured on device: a 28-photo SD scan went from a 2–3 s gap between scan and first copy down to ~0 s; it scales with library size). The date value and destination folders are unchanged. A missing **device name** is now also checked *before* the scan (fail-fast) instead of after. Photos-library backups are unaffected by this (a `PHAsset`'s date is already cheap; that path's separate bottleneck, `PHAssetResource.assetResources`, is a later change). See `MediaScanner.resolveCaptureDate` + `DeviceScannerTests`. |

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