Install “Lomorage Photo Assistant” on Windows #

1. Install #

Open PowerShell (no need to run as Administrator) and paste in:

irm https://lomorage.com/windows/install.ps1 | iex

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

If you’re in mainland China and GitHub downloads are slow or fail, set this first so the download goes through an accelerator proxy instead:

$env:LOMOD_CHINA=1; irm https://lomorage.com/windows/install.ps1 | iex

If Windows shows a firewall prompt the first time it starts (so your phone can reach it over your local network), choose Private networks and click Allow access.

2. Data folder #

By default, your photos and videos are stored under Pictures\Lomorage in your own user 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 iex, then run it with -DataDir:

irm https://lomorage.com/windows/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1
./install.ps1 -DataDir "D:\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 Start menu and in the notification area (system tray, at the bottom right of your screen) — double-click either to open the web client in your browser.

Right-click the tray icon for Start / Stop / Restart, or Quit to close it entirely. If you ever quit it, search for Lomorage in the Start menu to open it again — no need to reinstall.

4. Access from your phone or another computer #

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

5. Staying up to date #

Lomorage checks for updates once a day in the background and installs them automatically — no action needed. If you’d rather update right away, 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. Right-click the tray icon and choose Quit.
2. Delete the Lomorage.lnk shortcuts from your Start menu and from shell:startup (paste that into the Windows Explorer address bar to jump there).
3. Open Task Scheduler and delete the LomorageUpdate task, if present.
4. Delete the install folder at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Lomorage\lomod.

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

Enjoy!

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Note on iPhone HEIC photos / HEVC videos: the Lomorage web client converts these to browser-friendly formats automatically when you view them there, so you don’t need to install anything extra just for that. But the original file stays HEIC/HEVC on disk — in your data folder, and in anything you download from Lomorage rather than just view in the browser. If you want Windows Explorer/Photos (on this PC or any other) to display or play those original files, install the “ HEIF Image Extensions” and “ HEVC Video Extensions” for that.