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Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage

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Re: Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage

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Post by vanrohan »

bix6 wrote: post #12

I’m currently using Photos Mobile with Synology but planning to setup Immich soon. The article doesn’t cover sharing which is the one hiccup in all this. Apple makes it so easy to share galleries and I don’t want to expose my NAS. Cost wise it’s close to parity if you backup offsite. But worth it to move out of their ecosystem. I literally did not have some of my original files since apple shifts things off disk to p…

Open Noodle is a fork of Immich which addresses the lack of Sharing: https://opennoodle.de/features/?category=sharing

Re: Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage

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Post by skrtskrt »

It drives me crazy that it shards your photos all over the place in opaquely named directories so you can’t actually find anything without its database index.

Photoprism is the best one I’ve found that will just take and index your folders as they are.

Re: Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage

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Post by ValtteriL »

I made the jump to Immich a month ago after having to prune my Drive more and more often as my free Drive quota ran totally out after 8 years of freeloading.

My homelab had spare capacity and I had already offsite backups to Hetzner Storage Box sorted out so it didn't take long or increase my costs.

Very good experience so far. I moved all my photos including multiple complete wedding albums to it, something I couldn't do with Drive without "converting". Nice to finally have all the Google Photos goodies for everything.

Shout out to immich-go, a cli tool for bulk uploads from Google takeout archives.

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Post by Noaidi »

As a retired semi-professional photographer I find it amazing how many photos some people have in their library. A mother with over 200GB of photos, 80% are junk, repeats, etc. She never looks at them either.

Most people would not need the storage they are using if the just took less photographs and edited more, but good on Immich.

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Post by garbageman »

carlosjobim wrote: post #10

"it’s now easier than ever" Followed by 300 lines of obscure config commands and server configuration. Great... My solution: I connect my iPhone once or twice a year and import my photos to a folder on my hard drive. Then I delete the old photos from the phone. That has worked fine for a couple of decades now. Or you can use iCloud or Google Photos, which is about one dollar per month.

Use claude code or any other llm to set this up for you then

Re: Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage

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Post by rootusrootus »

skrtskrt wrote: post #33

It drives me crazy that it shards your photos all over the place in opaquely named directories so you can’t actually find anything without its database index. Photoprism is the best one I’ve found that will just take and index your folders as they are.

I believe that's a setting, you can have it store the files in a more predictable directory hierarchy. Though it's better to make that choice early on before doing a lot of imports.

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Post by tehlike »

drdexebtjl wrote: post #30

I use Immich, but saved me money it has not. Unless you actually go through the "Backing up your photos" step, you _will_ lose your photos, it's just a matter of time. And if you're like most people, that is probably not acceptable. And by the time you do the math for the cost of your backups, you'll find Google Photos pricing is actually pretty good. Still worth it, imo.

Google takeout is pretty good with exporting photos.

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Post by Noaidi »

drdexebtjl wrote: post #30

I use Immich, but saved me money it has not. Unless you actually go through the "Backing up your photos" step, you _will_ lose your photos, it's just a matter of time. And if you're like most people, that is probably not acceptable. And by the time you do the math for the cost of your backups, you'll find Google Photos pricing is actually pretty good. Still worth it, imo.

I was in a paranoid psychotic state a few months back and I delete my whole photo library. About 40GB or my life for the last 15 years.

Looking back now it is no big deal. My burden has lessened and i am still the same man I was.

Re: Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage

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Post by blmarket »

skrtskrt wrote: post #33

It drives me crazy that it shards your photos all over the place in opaquely named directories so you can’t actually find anything without its database index. Photoprism is the best one I’ve found that will just take and index your folders as they are.

https://docs.immich.app/administration/storage-template/ is their best attempt to address your concern, but honestly I'm fine with navigating my photos solely using immich. (with annual backup copy stored in cold cloud storage)
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