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:
- I have a bunch of crap mixed into my Google photos, old WhatsApp images from meme groups I used to be in etc.
- 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.
I got the export of my data, which was photos and adjacent json files containing metadata, there is a script somewhere on github that merges the metadata back into the files. Then use the immich cli to upload the data.
I didn’t see it mentioned here, but rclone has a Google Photos backend, that will allow you to pull everything.
This finally opened a crack on the door of my technical debt and vendor lock-in with Google. Thank you! 😊
Yeah it’s great, we’re looking at doing the same both at work and at home.
Export your photos with take out
Then use immich-go to import
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.
Definitely do this. I ended up with the default file size value, which gave me thousands of files to download.
Immich go can accept wild cards fyi. Toss all those in a directory and point it at that.
Yeah that part was fine. The uploading parts wasn’t the problem - it was clicking through and downloading all the takeout files that was made easier by maxing out the zip size option.
