Uploading partner photos/videos and avoiding duplication?
I'm about to start uploading my partner's photos and videos with immich-go from her Google Takeout archive. My plan is to upload everything to her own immich account. Is there a way to have duplicate detection happen in some form before or during upload to avoid duplicate assets being saved to the server?
I see https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/4542 exists.
Since I'm planning on uploading to her own immich account, with an API key generated from that account, I'm assuming that the default behavior will be to do an entirely independent upload that will have no awareness of the files I have uploaded?
Should I just have her share my immich account? Would that be simpler? (And I would get deduplication automatically during the upload?)
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Immich currently doesn't deduplicate across seperate user accounts. So upload into her own account will not reject anything that already exists in yours.
You can share an account and get automatic upload rejection on exact duplicate photos.
So maybe that's the best method at the moment then! I assume that uploading into my account though WILL reject photos/videos that have already been uploaded?
Yes
As long as they are exactly the same metadata
E.g not compressed by via google photos / exif not edited