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Photos✅SolvedMobileI’m trying to consolidate all my photos into one clean, unified library, but I’m running into issues with Ente’s exports and cleanup tools.
Right now I have:
* All my photos currently in Ente
* A semi-cleaned-up Ente export on my PC
* A full photo archive on my NAS
I’ve been de-duping between the local PC cleaned-up export and the NAS, but I’m not confident which source should be the “source of truth"... and Ente’s built-in cleanup/sorting tools make this way harder (all 3 sources include thumbnails and other noise, and there’s no way to sort by file size, camera model, or useful EXIF data on Ente).
My current plan looks like this:
* Do one final, full Ente export (~187 GB), which will take hours.
* Run a global dedupe across all three sources (new Ente export, existing cleaned export, and NAS archive)
* Clean everything locally one final time: remove thumbnails, filter “similar” images, and get rid of other junk using proven third party tools.
* Re-upload the cleaned, unified library back into Ente
* Delete the redundant copies from my NAS
* Use Ente’s one-way sync to the NAS periodically going forward
Before I start this entire process, I want to make sure there’s not a better or more efficient way to achieve a single, clean, authoritative photo library.
Any suggestions or best practices would be appreciated.
Right now I have:
* All my photos currently in Ente
* A semi-cleaned-up Ente export on my PC
* A full photo archive on my NAS
I’ve been de-duping between the local PC cleaned-up export and the NAS, but I’m not confident which source should be the “source of truth"... and Ente’s built-in cleanup/sorting tools make this way harder (all 3 sources include thumbnails and other noise, and there’s no way to sort by file size, camera model, or useful EXIF data on Ente).
My current plan looks like this:
* Do one final, full Ente export (~187 GB), which will take hours.
* Run a global dedupe across all three sources (new Ente export, existing cleaned export, and NAS archive)
* Clean everything locally one final time: remove thumbnails, filter “similar” images, and get rid of other junk using proven third party tools.
* Re-upload the cleaned, unified library back into Ente
* Delete the redundant copies from my NAS
* Use Ente’s one-way sync to the NAS periodically going forward
Before I start this entire process, I want to make sure there’s not a better or more efficient way to achieve a single, clean, authoritative photo library.
Any suggestions or best practices would be appreciated.
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I think your plan looks right. Dont think there is another way
THe only point of optimisation could be the dedupe step - for which you can write a custom script or some 3rd party tool, that can do this accurately and quickly
THe only point of optimisation could be the dedupe step - for which you can write a custom script or some 3rd party tool, that can do this accurately and quickly
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