ChrisV
IImmich
•Created by Stanbey on 9/22/2024 in #help-desk-support
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hello there! it took me a minute to "catch on" to this too! (i wish we had the option of whether or not to over-write or make a copy. i honestly don't like the copies!) after rotating or cropping, your copy should show up at the top like you just took a new pic. to me, that's nuts. i would rather it keep the same metadata (date/time, location, etc). anyway, hope this helps! 🙂
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IImmich
•Created by WisherDaKing on 1/25/2025 in #help-desk-support
"Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!"
hey there! i was in the SAME boat a few weeks ago! (i'm now a VERY HAPPY immich user! like you, i also own off-site servers for my backups ... and i run an immich test server to fully try out an update before applying it to my "real" Immich server.)
i've been in icloud since the beginning and had over 3TB of photos and videos shot on my iphone since the original iphone. i REQUESTED MY PHOTOS DATA FROM APPLE (https://privacy.apple.com/) ... waited about a week to get the links ... downloaded all the originals ... and then used Immich-CLI via my Mac to upload them to my QNAP server over 25G fibre. CLI was a lifesaver! so fast!
i probably could have dragged the files over from Photos, however i'm sure that would have been cumbersome at best. plus i wanted all the ORIGINALS, straight from apple.
fyi, you don't need to copy any of the albums / shared albums that apple includes in these downloads. that was something i found out later (ugh). they are simply dumbed-down versions of your originals (i.e. 720p video and 1MP/4MP photos). you will have duplicates if you copy over these album files to your server also!
SINCE THEN ... i have disabled icloud photos on all my devices and i've downgraded my icloud storage to the least possible (50GB for $1 or 200GB for $3 - i chose the latter because i have family sharing enabled), to only store my device backups (only about 4-6GB per device).
hope this helps, my friend! 🙂
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