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•Created by boku on 5/16/2025 in #help-desk-support
Assets lost during migration
Dear all
I am finally migrating to immich and I am facing an issue with missing assets.
The first attempts were more successful in terms of completeness, but I was facing issues with the timeline as copying photos (from Synology Photos folder) changed timestamps. Now, several thousand photos seem to disappear - this situation seems to be reproducable as I have already retried it.
What I did:
- Mount USB drive on NAS1
- Create a tar archive with tar -cf <Synology Photos folder> to an USP drive
- Unarchive with tar -xf
- Delete all @eaDir folders with thumbnails recursively
- Mount USB drive to NAS2
- Upload photos with the following command:
docker run -it -v "$(pwd)":/import:ro \
-e IMMICH_INSTANCE_URL=http://<host>:2283/api \ -e IMMICH_API_KEY=<key> \ ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-cli:latest upload . --recursiveCrawling for assets... Hashing files | ████████████████████████████████████████ | 100% | ETA: 0s | 11929/11929 assets Checking for duplicates | ████████████████████████████████████████ | 100% | ETA: 0s | 11929/11929 assets Found 11929 new files and 0 duplicates Uploading assets | ████████████████████████████████████████ | 99% | ETA: 1s | 31.2 GB/31.2 GB Successfully uploaded 11910 new assets (31.2 GB) Skipped 19 duplicate assets (6.6 MB) Why does the progress bar stay at 99%? In the Server statistics overview I now see: Photos: 8.725 (16 GiB) Videos: 676 (13 GiB) Usage: 29 GiB I expected to see 11910 assets in total, but apparently there are only 9401. Is this a known error or am I doing something wrong? My wife has even 4 times number of photos. Thank you Patric
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