I’m trying to decide how to import my Google Photos Takeout backup. I see two general ways:

  • Import it by uploading it to Immich (immich-go, etc.)
  • Add it as an External library

Has anyone done it one way or the other? Any recommendation, pros/cons or gotchas?

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Yes! I imported 23k media files into a new platform, and the takeout process was such a pain. My destination was built to handle the zipped or unzipped media, but occasionally issues cropped up,like when files spanned archives but the json was on the previous one. That resulted in orphaned files with upload dates instead of date taken.

      Ultimately, I think I had the best experience extracting all 123GB and uploading the albums/folders that way.

      Would have been SO much easier with an API that allowed cloud to cloud.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I wonder if this is worth doing even if I import with immich-go which seems to combine this data too.

    • krnl386@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Google reminds me more and more of Microsoft of the 90s. That’s exactly the kind of compatibility breaking asinine move MS would do 30 years ago. Sigh…