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External Library or Upload photos

Hi everyone,
I had a quick question. I want to use Immich to manage my photos. Amazing application I must say, many props to Alex and the other for developing it.
However, I am usure how I should or what is recommeded way of using it.
I have, just as probably many others, a big folder of many years of photos. Most of them in camera roll folder uploaded from my phone(iOS) and some photos sorted in albums in folders.
But I am unsure if to add it as an external library or just dump all my photos into it (maybe using Immich-go). For the external library you have to rescan it everytime it changes, which I think is not ideal. And for uploading the photos, I want to keep the albums I have right now.
What did you guys do? Any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you!
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