How to add folders of photos to immich albums from another machine or VM within the network.
I saw a cli explaination of what to do to recursively add photos, but its on the same PC from what I could tell. How would I do a bulk migration of photos from any number of machines in my homelab? Is there a GUI option as well? nbd if there isnt. Thanks for any help on that.
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Are you talking in term of
importing existing gallery or uploading gallery to Immich?Hi, thanks for answering. Its just a folder full of photos. I have them all over the place so this solution (immich) is perfect for me.
and the folder has subfolders. I have done this several times when replacing a phone or whatever and have them seemingly everywhere like some weird photo packrat
so my best option is to try to send them all into immich somehow
Ah ok, so you can use the CLI to upload that folder into Immich using the
--recursive flag so it loops through the content in the subfolders. Once they are arrvied at Immich, Immich will sort them into the folder by your custom template https://immich.app/docs/administration/storage-templateThe CLI client is headless, it is not in the Immich stack, so you can install it on any machine that you have your photos or videos folder and run the command to upload those files to your Immich instance
fair enough. thank you for the help!
please let me know if you need any help
I have everything I need to get the photos in immich now, pretty easy setup. I was reading around but didnt see a definitive answer regarding duplicates? Is that handled automatically by chance?
Correct
the file hash will be calculated by the server so no hash should be the same
thats fantastic. I really am liking this container so far. I set it up on one of my promox nodes and using a zfs drive for it. I noticed it has a lot of
jobs it will need to do. Im good with that as well. I have plenty of time and Im in no hurry. I have a little gpu im not using i could pass through if that would help the logic any. Not sure.
haha this facial recognition is picing the worst possible photos of people. Thats hilariousthe thumbnail right?
I need to get back to the facial recognition feature to start adding more abilities to it
Yeah its the circular thumbnail at the top. hehe pretty funny
So, speaking about duplicated photos. I'm in the unfortunate circumstance where I've got duplicates in different libraries that have had their exif data parsed/modified differently. So since the file isn't technically the same (altho all the IMAGE data is identical), I end up with duplicates and have to manually sort through and remove duplicates.
Any chance to see an option where we can compute the file hash for deduplication on image data alone ignoring exif data? (I know that's probably asking a lot for a limited use case). Alternatively, is there some other tool that could manage to find duplicate images ignoring exif data?
Hello, there is not a tool availalbe at the moment
ok I have pretty much everything done with the exception of the massive google photos import. is there a recommended way to do that?
reading what gaurhouth mentioned, what sorts of changes would make the photos look exactly the same but make them different? I am really hoping i didnt do that. I may just put everything in one folder and sort the mess out over the next year lol
or two
Just for curiosity...
How did you use cli tool? I mean, via Docker?
@SmartPhoneLover unfortunately, in my case, immich is install via docker-compose, but the media that I sent to it was not. I did not have a need to use the tool within a docker container. I am sure @Alex can get you straight on that. if you have immich as a docker, but are sending from a non docker source, that link should suffice
i do have a question regarding the
jobs for immich however. do these just run of their own accord? everytime i go to this section it seems like I am starting over and it reprocesses the images. not sure about this one.yeah all the jobs are run when you upload a file
the reason we have jobs is for cases when we changes some mechanism and required the user to run those things to update their uploaded files
for example, changing a better ML model
lol I keep hitting sync and other options and its starting over i guess 😄
need a BIG BANNER over that area for idiots like me i guess lol
which sync button?
basically anytime you hit sync or start, it does stuff, which led me to think it had more to do
haha. my bad for sure on that one
oh like missing/all button for the job?
yeah
n00b error
do you have a way to pull down images from google photos?
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gphotos import + albums With this guide, you STILL have to add images that are in multiple albums manually (except for the first instance of that image, so hopefully this isn’t too many) can get al...
Here you go
ok thats twice i feel like an a$$
sorry about that 😐
no problem
thank you for the help once again
information are scattered
I need to build a bot to help me with these links 😄
well it is, but thats what search engines help with 😉
AI is getting pretty good with that too