Quitting Ente for a year

I'm primarily a desktop user with about 100k photos from a DLSR and MILC cameras, about 50k are setup to be sync to Ente. Been using Ente for a couple years but the desktop app just isn't cutting it for me.

It appears to me that Ente is primarily for mobile photo users and if all I did was shoot on mobile, I'd continue happily. I generally like the product and it's mission and want it to succeed and it may very well do great with just mobile photography users.

My Problems with desktop

• On Mac, it constantly uses 250% plus or minus of the CPU. I leave it on for a couple days and it's still hogging the machine. This happened on a 2018 intel mac mini and now is happening on a 2023 Mac Studio (M2). It has similar problems on Linux. I reported this "issue" way back.

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• Desktop app repeatedly flickers: blanks out and reappears. Been happening for over a year.
• While Desktop app is running and flickering. I can click on a photo and I get a "404" error. Which is hard to resolve without closing out the app and restarting.

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• I log into the website and it flashes a message "nothing to see here yet" quickly before it rebuilds my Memories (photos) from scratch. The website counts up from 0 to 50k (roughly the photos I've got in there). It takes 15 minutes. I guess that's fine if you want to leave the site up constantly. It's probably due to lack of ability to store thumbnails due to encryption or something. Maybe there's a work around. Not that important to me as I mostly use the app.
• Regarding albums, ente was sync'ing my DLSR folder structure (yyyy /yyyymm /assignment and converted the assignments to albums. Problem was, I have 800 "assignments" or shoots and they are not grouped at all in Ente - I just have a massive set of albums. I would want a way to group albums (family, work, sports , scenic whatever). Not a game changer, but this is probably only a desktop/DSLR user problem, not so much a smartphone user problem. I'd probably work around this if I wasn't getting the 404 errors and high CPU utilization.

Anyway, I just received an "about to renew your subscription" email and I said to myself: I'm going to save the $99 (500GB plan) in 2024 and re-test the service in a year.