Syncing Apple Photos on macOS to Immich?

Hi all, I'm working on migrating from Apple's Photos.app on my Mac to Immich.

I have about 4 TB of RAW (.arw) photos stored on my Mac in a Photos.app library; they are not stored or synced via iCloud. Many of these photos have edits applied. Since Immich doesn't currently support editing, I'd like to keep using Photos.app to store and edit my photos, but run some sort of agent on my Mac to automatically backup/sync both the RAW and edited versions to Immich.

Looking at this closed feature request, it looks like there's no plans for a specific Photos.app integration; the closest would be a desktop client, which doesn't exist yet either.

If I want to sync RAW + edits to Immich, is the only option to manually upload both the RAW and the edited file whenever either changes?
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