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What is the Best way to migrate Google-Photos to Immich? (piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    This so usually stored on the photos as exif data

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Right, sorry that's what I meant to type which got corrected to "exit". When I tried it it would be exported as a separate set of json files instead of being part of the images. Glad to hear that's not the case any longer or that this tool can automatically handle it.

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