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Install “Lomorage Photo Assistant” on macOS #

1. Install #

Open Terminal (no sudo needed) and run:

curl -fsSL https://lomorage.com/mac/install.sh | bash

This downloads lomod and everything it needs (vips, exiftool, ffmpeg), installs it to your user profile, and starts it — no .dmg, no admin password, no reboot.

If you’re in mainland China and GitHub downloads are slow or fail, route the download through an accelerator proxy instead:

curl -fsSL https://lomorage.com/mac/install.sh | LOMOD_CHINA=1 bash

If macOS shows a firewall or network-access prompt the first time it starts (so your phone can reach it over your local network), click Allow.

2. Data folder #

By default, your photos and videos are stored under Pictures/Lomorage in your own home folder — you don’t need to configure anything before using it.

If you’d rather use a different drive or folder (for example an external drive), download the script first instead of piping it straight into bash, then run it with --data-dir:

curl -fsSL https://lomorage.com/mac/install.sh -o install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh --data-dir "/Volumes/MyDrive/Lomorage"

Running the installer again like this is also how you re-point an existing install at a new folder — it’s safe to re-run any time.

3. Open Lomorage #

A Lomorage icon appears in your menu bar, and a Lomorage app is added to ~/Applications — find it with Spotlight (⌘Space, type “Lomorage”) or Launchpad like any other Mac app, and double-click to open the web client in your browser.

Click the menu bar icon for Start / Stop / Restart, or Quit to close it entirely. If you ever quit it, reopen it the same way — via Spotlight, Launchpad, or ~/Applications — no need to reinstall.

4. Access from your phone or another computer #

Find the IP address shown for your Mac, then from your phone or another device on the same network, open http://<that-ip>:8000 in a browser.

5. Staying up to date #

Automatic background updates aren’t wired up on macOS yet. To update, just run the install command from step 1 again — it’s safe to re-run and won’t touch your photos.

6. Uninstall #

There isn’t a one-click uninstaller yet. To remove it completely:

  1. Click the menu bar icon and choose Quit.
  2. Delete ~/Applications/Lomorage.app.
  3. Run launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u)/com.lomorage.lomod and delete ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.lomorage.lomod.plist.
  4. Delete the install folder at ~/Library/Application Support/Lomorage/lomod.

Your photos in the data folder from step 2 are not touched by any of this.

Enjoy!

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