Random Immich Photo of the day

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#photooftheday #ImmichPhotoOfTheDay #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #photography #immich #immichapp

YOLO'd my life time archive of photos which I'd manage to smear across 2 locations because an external disk didn't mount and thus I'd been writing to the external disk before a reboot 3 months ago and the internal disk since.

#immich knew about all the files, but didn't understand they were in multiple places.

I ended up using find, comm, diff, stat and wc to convince myself there were no file clashes, though sme of the directory structures clashed then rsync to copy the files around.

Then, because permissions... reran the rsync with sudo.

restarted immich and so far... nothing looks broken.

Now to backup to remote storage.

Ran out of HD space on the laptop running Immich, but managed to move the upload directory to an external 1TB usb HD. Also have another external HD that has all my old home videos from 1990 to present. Immich handles videos better than Plex did. All old pre-Immich photo archives are referenced as an external library also. Will probably need a bigger HD or a NAS setup eventually.

Still very impressed with Immich overall. It is a great solution to get me away from Google Photos. The machine learning and face recognition works better than I expected.

Immich installed via Docker on Debian 12. VPN access via TailScale.

#immich #degoogle #photography #linux

I just found 20 years worth of manually tagged images! I thought the tagging had been lost to the gods of software past.

People names, places, event names, all back.

So happy!!!

#homelab #immich #digitalarchives #photos #memories