Leah Dykema
IImmich
•Created by Leah Dykema on 5/1/2025 in #help-desk-support
Setup has been a Nightmare
Ok, so, I love Plex for my personal media library. I’ve gathered a ton of old old shows and movies I watched as a little kid for my nephews to watch my Mom and I were unable to find anywhere on DVD. When I saw they have photo library support I was super stoked and tried it, but turns out their app is complete trash and can’t handle videos at all. So I decided to look for a different server for my photos. I was recommended to use Immich and thought, how hard could it be, I figured out Plex, I can figure out Immich. NOPE! A full day later, I have accomplished absolutely NOTHING! Wasted my life! Took HOURS to setup, then got locked out of my account because of stupid password manager generated passwords not saving, which added another hour or so of pain. Turns out their guide was completely useless and ChatGPT only goes in loops and is a total idiot. Then when I finally got the thing up and running, turns out all my files for some absolutely untold reason are corrupt?! Oh, and the ones that aren’t, they magically duplicated??? And on top of that a whole bunch of mysterious photos just SHOWED UP out of NOWHERE. Pictures of people I have no idea who the heck they are and never met, and app icons I never downloaded. Couldn’t even find them in my files! The folder structure is beyond a nightmare and at that point I was losing it and not wanting to comb through 4k+ photos so, I’m stuck with duplicates and mysterious creepy close up photos of strangers in my library, and mostly corrupt photos that refuse to show up on Immich, totally what I wanted and makes sense when they all are JPEG, PNG, and .MOV files… So, if you actually know code and actually understand the lingo, you might have a chance, but this was a lost cause on a thousand levels. I love the idea, you definitely beat PleX, but the setup and porting in photos from an existing folder, nightmare and impossible.
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