Migrating from Nextcloud. Some issues.
Fresh docker installation.
I have migrated over 130.000 images from folder that I used in Nextcloud using cli import command. It took a while and now it still doing tasks like creating thumbnails and other detections. I have started with upload from my phone which I hoped will skip all identical files that were already synced, but it did not. It created the same filename, just added +1. Looking at files size it is identical, but its MD5 hash isn't. I have made screenshot from compare.
So I stopped with sync and are stuck at what to do. I wish to keep the images from phone also in sync. What would happen if I delete the +1 files manually from the folder?
Maybe worth to mention as seperated issues that I had. Used --delete paramater at cli upload command, but it failed to delete the files from source folder as it had no rights to delete them. CLI application crashed with permission error. But when I reran it, it sayed all files were already imported and it did not delete from source what was already imported.
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:Hello, these files are not identical as the binary content differs as you show
In no circumstance can you manually edit or delete any files from UPLOAD_LOCATION
You can let the sync complete then try the immich built in duplicate finder
I did not delete anything from UPLOAD_LOCATION. So duplicated finder might detect this two files as the same image?
Yes but you would need to go through and mark for deletion, it will walk you through each match
I wonder who made changes to the files that were synced from phone. Might be Nextcloud client. Is it possible to tell Android client to sync only new photos and not old ones?
No, we don’t support that unless you manually make albums containing new files etc
Immich will do its best to upload the file as byte identical as the phone
Based on hash I am guessing. Which in my case is not the same due to those small changes. I will try to move all photos to some other folder on my phone and keeping "Camera" folder empty. Or maybe I can change location of new photos in photo app and sync that folder only.
Was not able to find a way to change Camera folder. So I am moving all 4000 pictures and videos from Camera to Camera.old folder. All new images will go to Camera and I will sync them as new. You think this is proper way? I can still browse all images from Camera.old on my phone.