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What is the Best way to migrate Google-Photos to Immich? (piefed.social)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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:

I have a bunch of crap mixed into my Google photos, old WhatsApp images from meme groups I used to be in etc.
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.

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[–] 123@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

For the ones I imported it seems like the location data is still there

[–] MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Yes

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 123@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Right, the problem only happened on google checkout for me.

[–] Cactopuses@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This so usually stored on the photos as exif data

[–] 123@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.