I’ve been running Immich for about 6 months now, and it’s smooth and stable.

I’ve synced my camera roll to it and loving it.
Next step is to move the ~150gb of media on Google-Photos over.
How do I best do that?

I also have some other issues I’d like to address before or after the migration:

  1. I have a bunch of crap mixed into my Google photos, old WhatsApp images from meme groups I used to be in etc.
  2. Thousands of photos of Ex girlfriends mixed in (not exactly sure what to do about these)

Is there a way to siff through these efficiently and keep what I want? I have ~20k photos some dating back to 2006 so it feels like a mountain to climb.

  • 123@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Does that properly keep metadata like location and other exit entries? I recall google takeout used to suck at that. I had to export using their web UI 1000 at a time or so back in the day to keep that info.

      • 123@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Right, sorry that’s what I meant to type which got corrected to “exit”. When I tried it it would be exported as a separate set of json files instead of being part of the images. Glad to hear that’s not the case any longer or that this tool can automatically handle it.

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I was too lazy and immich-go may not have existed when I migrated but I just selected and downloaded my pictures from Google Photos then just uploaded them to Immich and they seemed to keep all their metadata.