Mastodawn

I decided to give #Immich another try. I'll let it serve as a backup for my iCloud photos. Will see how it's going. For now, my poor phone is uploading my entire shared library to my poor server. Both are running hot but still standing strong : )
#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #SelfHost #HomeLab #iCloudPhotos #iCloud

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 8

#Immich first impressions

Well, not really first, but current. Last time I tried it was a couple of years ago, I think.

1. Looks and feels like a polished product.
2. I still can’t have two separate libraries. I really like the idea of two libraries - shared and personal. Like in Synology Photos or iCloud Photos.

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two first names Dec 8

@yehor What’s your use-case for number 2. Separate shared library?

There are shared albums, and a cool thing also is that instead of sharing individual photos, you can share your whole library to a partner (both ways) and have those show up inline or not. So you don’t have to share to an album between “partners”.

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

@deancommasteven, while both ways of sharing are acceptable, there is another more convenient way, in my opinion. You still have a shared library with your partner, so all photos from there are in your partner’s timeline, but there is another library with my personal photos. By default, all photos taken by me go to the personal library, and I can move some of them or all of them to the shared library…
1/2

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

2/2
@deancommasteven

So we still don’t have to create albums to share our mutual memories, because it is not always reasonable to create a separate album for two random selfies, for example, but I can filter out photos my partner is not interested in. For example, my #HomeLab photos :)

@yehor @deancommasteven

There's also the locked folder feature. Maybe overkill for your use case.

two first names Dec 9

@yehor Yeah that makes sense. How we do this is by having a single shared album that we treat like your shared library. Everything we want to share between us goes into that one album. We don’t create a new shared album for each event.

I’m not sure if shared albums show up in the timeline though; we haven’t used that feature yet on Immich.

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

I think this is the end of #Immich experiments for now. Will try again in a couple of years more.

Got 10k photos uploaded successfully, but the second 10k fails continuously.

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Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

So the issue with #Immich is resolved by putting the phone on the charger ))

6k left to be synced out of 20k. Looks like I'll be with my entire library in Immich by the end of the day )

@yehor That’s an interesting fix 🤔
I guess some automatic background task killer ?

Also I’ve heard a lot of people using Immich-go to import large libraries, especially from other servers, I wonder if you heard/considered it ?

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

@docyeet first time hearing about it. Thanks for the recommendation

Jens Tec 🇪🇺🇺🇦Dec 9

@yehor It’s a shame to hear that. When I uploaded 30k + pics I didn’t have any issue.... love the software. Nobody in the community that can lend a hand? #immich

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

@jenstec I see a lot of similar issues opened on GitHub. I also see 500 opened issues in total and a lot of them are “server crash” or “server exited”. Have no idea how this could be a stable product.

Adam Williams Dec 9

@yehor @jenstec Those bug reports are the nature of being a primarily self-hosted project. I've been there: "Hey, I ran your code on my Commodore Amiga 500 running Wahoo LINUX installed on a twenty year old Western Digital hard drive and, in between power outages, it crashes all the time!" 😑

Adam Williams Dec 9

@yehor I initially imported ~50,000 images, and while that took awhile, it just kept chunking along.

@yehor
Use the CLI importer if you want to give it another go

@yehor It is better to use #Immich-go to import many pictures from iCloud or Google Photos.
I have 150.000 pictures in my Immich server and it runs well

@yehor Happy to see you try it out, and curious to get your feedback on it !

They have been polishing that project like crazy, can’t say enough good about it but I’m probably biased 🤔

Miroslav Stankic Dec 8

@yehor check out all the LMM thing it does.
Magic!

Вʼязень свободи Dec 9

@yehor I have much fewer photos. I'm shocked at how much material you have. 😮

Вʼязень свободи Dec 9

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

@grandboss 20k is my entire photo library, starting from 2004 )

Вʼязень свободи Dec 9

@yehor Then it's fine. Although I lost a lot of photos and not everything is on the disk.

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

@grandboss that's sad (

cosmiction Dec 9

@yehor I would recommend first getting your photos on a pc and then using Immich-go (https://github.com/simulot/immich-go), if you try this again next time.

GitHub - simulot/immich-go: An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives.

An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives. - simulot/immich-go

GitHub

Ganju Panju Dec 15

@yehor was it able to download photos from iCloud vs locally stored? Wondering the state of your photos was before you fed into immich. Trying to plan if this could be my backup photos solution.

Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 15

@ganjupanju Well, I’m not sure if the whole 20,000 photos and videos were stored locally on my phone. Only part of them was on the device when I started the upload to Immich. So yes, it looks like they were downloaded from iCloud. Not by Immich but by iOS itself to feed local files to Immich then. That’s my understanding of the process.

Ganju Panju Dec 16

@yehor great thanks. I think thats what is happening here as i saw someone talk similar on reddit after i posted here. Im still trying to get the basic setup done before I will get to this point of testing.