I’ve been running Immich for about 6 months now, and it’s smooth and stable.

I’ve synced my camera roll to it and loving it.
Next step is to move the ~150gb of media on Google-Photos over.
How do I best do that?

I also have some other issues I’d like to address before or after the migration:

  1. I have a bunch of crap mixed into my Google photos, old WhatsApp images from meme groups I used to be in etc.
  2. Thousands of photos of Ex girlfriends mixed in (not exactly sure what to do about these)

Is there a way to siff through these efficiently and keep what I want? I have ~20k photos some dating back to 2006 so it feels like a mountain to climb.

    • 123@programming.devEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Does that properly keep metadata like location and other exit entries? I recall google takeout used to suck at that. I had to export using their web UI 1000 at a time or so back in the day to keep that info.

    • Kyle@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      This is the answer.

      Additional ideas: I happened to be on Synology and wanted to download google takeout files directly from Google to the nas. So I ran an instance of chromium in docker and used that browser to download the 50gb takeout files directly to the nas.

      Take note of the size of your immich library before and after you import with immich go, and how big the takeout files are before using immich go. If you miss a few files you’ll know because of the size discrepancy.

    • gjoel@programming.devEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      Note that immich go doesn’t need you to extract the zip files. Also, you can set each file to 50GB making everything a lot easier.

    • antrosapien@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Found it the hard way… Extracted the zips,and deleted; just to find out I gotta download em again or compress it