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Immich•8mo ago
Bjørnholt

From Google Photos to Immich (two users with shared albums)

Heya.. I am having a hard time finding some official resources on how to properly migrate from Google Photos to Immich when we are more than one user with shared albums.. It is mostly in regards to duplicates I guess, but please tell me if I should be aware of something more. - Or if there is an actual guide that I have missed.. 😅

I hope it makes sense to ask here in support - and if not, please just delete the post, that's okay. 🙂

This is how I am thinking of doing it.. Would that work you think? Or can you see something go wrong?:
Me:
- Google takeout everything (which only gets my own photos in shared albums)
- Free up whole phone so no local photos are on the phone
- Run go-immich upload command (upload from-google-photos)
- Enable Immich backup on phone
- Share all albums with wife (make sure wife has renamed all hers before?)
- Done

Wife:
- Google takeout everything (which only gets her own photos in shared albums)
- Free up whole phone so no local photos are on the phone
- Run go-immich upload command (upload from-google-photos)
- Rename all shared albums by suffixing "_transfer"
- Move all photos from "_transfer"-suffixed albums to the correct shared albums and delete suffixed ones after
- Enable Immich backup on phone
- Done
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