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Beware that migrating back from Immich to iCloud/Google is not something Immich cares about. There is no "download all" anywhere, best way is to go to the server and get raw files from there. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/14365
They’re literally on a disk drive I can physically touch. I think I can figure out a migration strategy for that.
I wish they would better support external image sources - images not uploaded/managed by Immich, just a folder of images it has access to - especially if it's read only. It mostly works, but the UI and logic breaks in a lot of little ways.
Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement
Is there any side effects of leaving the phone connected to Tailscale VPN all day?
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If you are okay with internet exposure on some level, Cloudflare Tunnel is a really fantastic product: https://developers.cloudflare.com/tunnel/ It’s obviously not a magical security layer that eliminates all issues related to public Internet exposure, but in my opinion it is good enough for the average home user.
Note that Cloudflare Tunnel blocks requests above 100MiB, which makes it impossible to upload long videos. This is being addressed in https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/22385
So many comments here about missing end to end encryption, but seriously - why would anyone want this? Lets say burglars break in and steal your homelab. Because you don't have e2ee, they can see all the photos you saved of your dead grandmother! Oh no! Or, in the more likely scenario that something happens to your phone, the lack of e2ee means that even if you lost your keys you didn't lose the only memories that re…
* Immich doesn't have end-to-end encryption, so I see it for self-hosting (i.e. on hardware I trust, typically at home).
* Ente has end-to-end encryption, which means I can host it on a random VPS.
Two different requirements for two different setups. E2EE adds some complexity, typically to set up a backup somewhere accessible. The fact that I have an unencrypted SDD next to my server at home that my family can grab and access photos is a feature to me: if I disappear I want them to be able to access them.
I have come to the realisation that I don't need 10,000 photos. I probably need Which I am yet to do...
And yes, we only look at physical photos or the "on this day X years ago" reels. But to get here, Immich was a valuable tool.
Has the ios photo sync gotten better? I've got 20k photos on my phone, and last I tried it filled up the storage on my phone with the originals, and never completed the process, even after leaving my phone open, unlocked, and the immich app running in the foreground for several days, on the same local network as the server. I know they were working on it, but haven't kept up, I just want to know if it works better no…
> On iOS, the background refresh task now runs its sync and upload work in parallel, so uploads actually start within the short time window iOS allows.
But I don't know if that fixes your issue.
Does anyone have any pointers on the best way to import roughly 14 Google takeout chunks into immich? I've downloaded all the chunks once, only to find them corrupted due to... Their 50gb size and using a browser in theory. One also cannot seem to use wget or alternatives because of the auth / session cookies required via Google takeout. I've yet to even broach the aspect of importing each giant bundle into immich be…
See the release note that this HN thread links to ;-)
>>> Background backup improvements Background backup on Android is now significantly more reliable. Previously, the background backup on Android was limited to newly taken photos. Now, the app uses a new periodic task scheduler, which allows you to upload your entire library in the background, and it plays nicer with Android's background execution limits, properly cleans up tasks, and warns you when battery optimization and notification settings might interfere with backups.
On iOS, the background refresh task now runs its sync and upload work in parallel, so uploads actually start within the short time window iOS allows.
They rely on immich-go project, which is ridden with bugs and basically abandonware by now. Their own iOS app, which can also be used for syncing iCloud gallery, has outstanding, 2 y/o or so bugs that will fail to upload the Live Motion photos.
My photos exported to Immigh have some 9000 broken, half imported Live Photos and I just don't have time to fix that.
The fact that THIS is not their priority, the most comprehensively A-B tested feature is beyond me. Who cares about OCR if you can't trust that they didn't butcher your imported memories? I just don't get it!