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New instance with old data

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Hello, it has been a while since I had an immich instance up and running, but I stupidly made some changes that is making it even harder to get back up. At this point I am wondering if I just save the
library
library
and
uploads
uploads
folders and then leave them there when bringing up the stack with
docker compose up -d
docker compose up -d
will that be enough? I don't care about all the reindexing time and stuff, I just want to make sure I don't lose the images and videos I had saved this way previously.

I understand this is an issue of me being lazy and not figuring this out before trying to upgrade and losing the password to the Postgres DB to even try a backup. My bad, I will do not that going forward... πŸ˜…
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