Not familiar with the nextcloud side of things, but I just pulled all my photos from Google photos and imported them all to Immich. I’d imagine if you just have a folder full of images, it’d work the same way. During the Immich setup, you can designate an import folder. Point that import folder at your photos folder that you want to bring in. Once you have Immich up and running, you can use the terminal and run an import from the command line on that import folder. You’ll have to make an API key for the CLI to use, but you can make that in the settings. Immich doesn’t currently support mass importing from inside the UI, so this is the only way I’ve found to do it. The import ran fast for me though, went though 125gb of photos and videos in about 5 mins.
Switching from Google photos to immich was one of the best uses for server I’ve ever implemented. Amazing piece of software and one of the best open sources projects in a long time
Alternatively you can just use external library and point it to nextcloud photos folder. That way you can’t edit or delete files in immich, but you can see them just like any other picture. I upload everything from my phone to immich, but still have some folder organized photos in nextcloud.
I’ve tried Immich before and it’s fine for uploaded photos because it detects it’s the same photo even if you rename it. But as long as it doesn’t do that for photos from external libraries I can’t trust to put anything into its albums. And if I can’t use its albums to organize and everything is dumped into one big pile it’s a show stopper.
The only workaround I can think of would be to make multiple users and load different external libraries to different users, but it’s not a great solution. The mobile app doesn’t support multiple users anyway, I’d have to logout and login all the time.
Not familiar with the nextcloud side of things, but I just pulled all my photos from Google photos and imported them all to Immich. I’d imagine if you just have a folder full of images, it’d work the same way. During the Immich setup, you can designate an import folder. Point that import folder at your photos folder that you want to bring in. Once you have Immich up and running, you can use the terminal and run an import from the command line on that import folder. You’ll have to make an API key for the CLI to use, but you can make that in the settings. Immich doesn’t currently support mass importing from inside the UI, so this is the only way I’ve found to do it. The import ran fast for me though, went though 125gb of photos and videos in about 5 mins.
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Switching from Google photos to immich was one of the best uses for server I’ve ever implemented. Amazing piece of software and one of the best open sources projects in a long time
Alternatively you can just use external library and point it to nextcloud photos folder. That way you can’t edit or delete files in immich, but you can see them just like any other picture. I upload everything from my phone to immich, but still have some folder organized photos in nextcloud.
Can Immich show external libraries separately or does it mix all the photos together?
It mix the photos together
Uff that’s a bit of a deal breaker.
I’ve tried Immich before and it’s fine for uploaded photos because it detects it’s the same photo even if you rename it. But as long as it doesn’t do that for photos from external libraries I can’t trust to put anything into its albums. And if I can’t use its albums to organize and everything is dumped into one big pile it’s a show stopper.
The only workaround I can think of would be to make multiple users and load different external libraries to different users, but it’s not a great solution. The mobile app doesn’t support multiple users anyway, I’d have to logout and login all the time.
The only problem there is that, at least a whole ago, you will get duplicate images. Between the external library and your app upload
If I understand correctly, that would happen only if you upload same files to both nextcloud and immich, but I dont see a reason to do that.