Trying this now, metadata seems complete!

Hope this works completely...

Apparently it'll need me to do one for the PrivateSync library and one for SharedSync, whatever are those (probably family shared library and personal one?)

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader

Yeah, icloud-photos-downloaded worked well and is definitely the only way to do this initial upload. Re-enabled ADP now.

I’m now using only external libraries on immich, one for those and one for auto upload. For the auto upload, I’m trying using nextcloud to upload to an external folder that’s also imported on immich as an external library, let’s see if that works.

Nextcloud doesn’t seem to be actually removing the metadata from the videos, that was just a handful of old videos that seemingly lost their metadata when my father duplicated (maybe to take clips out of them? Idk) them.

This is what I used to run icloudpd, if anyone needs it. If using --xmp-sidecar you’ll also need to use a patched version of the program: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader/pull/1290

Run with --list-libraries so you can see all your libraries other than PrimarySync, you’ll have a second one if you have a shared iCloud library. Run that command one (or as many times as needed to completely succeed) time for each library.

Hmmm ok, already don’t like one thing about Nextcloud: icloud-photos-downloder is able to save screenshots with a “Screenshot” tag on the used lenses. Nextcloud doesn’t do this, which honestly will make filtering(out) screenshots on Immich a pain in the ass

Edit: oh and apparently it saves them without timezone data

And when a file errors it says it’ll try again but doesn’t and then doesn’t ever send anything else unless you clear cache. Ugh this’ll suck…