Your Photos, Your Rules- Google Takeout to Immich Transfer | Immich Pt 3

[@almulder10]

would love for you to show how to implement OAuth (and keep up the great work, love your videos and learned so much over the years)

[@MrMischelito]

Lovely ! Works like a charm. One important from the developers: "The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!"

[@ghostedragon964]

So long as u update regularly to the lastest update and read the notes, on what to do BEFORE/AFTER the update. It is all good. But nonetheless always follow the 3-2-1 rule for data backup

[@rizzyc1]

I literally just downloaded 150 gigs of my photos and transferred them to my server so the timing on this video couldn't be better!

[@arekusogaki]

Wow I learn something new from you every time I watch your videos like typing 'cmd' into the explorer bar to open command prompt in that folder. I love your channel!

[@monofurioso]

Importing 30000 photos and videos now! This could take a while. Thanks!

[@bonamin]

I started a 65.000 photo import, and for some reason Unraid dropped one of my disks offline. Disabled. Meanwhile there was no error with the drive or it's SMART Health status. MAYBE, it's because both the "import" folder AND the library folder are on the same drive. Anyway, I've rebuild the drive using parity and I will try again.

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Two videos in one week yeah! lol Happy Easter weekend to you to Ed! Hope it is a great one :) Thanks for always sharing with us!💖👍😎JP

[@clintellis4055]

Great video, would love a follow up for getting machine learning running on an external machine.

[@DukeOfWillowton]

I tried it myself via manual transferring it and then importing my photos-share to immich. This is much better!! I'm going to start over. 😅😅

[@jonathanjames1469]

Just wondering if you are going to release part 4 around machine learning setup for immich?

[@jdbaron25]

The trick you showed to quickly open a command prompt was freaking awesome! That was a new one for me!

[@PasqualeLassandro]

Great tutorial! Will you also do one on how to configure an Immich backup & restore in Unraid? I see the feature is not implemented, it would be interesting to know how to do it!

[@Dan0ZERIOUS]

Fantastic Videos. Only thing i think you missed is it currently doesn't do auto-updating album for pets/people. I think there might be a tool to get around this one difference. But once i tweeked a couple settings. it was so much quicker and smoother than google photos. Great video and keep up the awesome work mate.

[@DerSalzstangenesser]

Great Video and the trick with the CMD was realy cool. 2FA is not implemented directly into Immich because the devs choose to leave this to special solutions. Because personal pics are very privacy consered, it would be nice if you could create a video on how to add Authentik or Authelia to this or any other services which is accesed from outside of the network. Keep up the great work!

[@jonathankonrad]

This series is incredible! I have followed all three, and every stage is working. As I am also using an unraid server, would you consider talking about a great idea for backing up immich running on unraid? I have ideas, but yours are always better! Thanks again for making these.

[@Thoroughmas]

Thanks Spaceinvader. I'd love to see a video about how to backup Immich properly. It seems a bit confusing, and perhaps requires more than the Appdata Backup plugin I currently use?

[@Cantexnik]

Hi. Thank you for a fairly complete review on Immich. I’m testing it now too. And perhaps instead of immich-go for files already on the server, it is better to use the External Library feature, which is in Immich itself. Because I noticed that when you use immich-go files are duplicated in the library folder, and when you use External Library, they are taken from a folder on the server.

[@Theexplorographer]

So many questions. GPU, 2 factor auth, please let us know if you are making more vids on immich! Down with the goo!!!

[@GaryRedgrave]

Have you thought about making a Quick Tips video on thumbnails? Something I noticed when storing my photos and videos on Nextcloud was that the thumbnails would take forever to load, especially when accessing them from the phone. The main reason for this was because Nextcloud generates thumbnails on the go by default, and you have to run a console command to force it to generate previews for all photos. The other reason they were slow to load is because Nextcloud stored thumbnails in the Nextcloud share by default, which allocates data to the Unraid array (which uses hard disks). With a large photo library comes a large amount of small thumbnails that you will want optimized for fast reads and minimal latency so your library loads quickly while you browse through it. think it makes sense to allocate them to an SSD, or a pool made up of SSDs(zfs for optimal performance). For Nextcloud, it is a matter of editing Nextcloud's Docker Template to point the thumbnail path to a share that uses SSDs. For Immich, I notice a thumbnail directory gets created within the /photos path. Perhaps you just map that to a share using SSDs?

[@laurikvo]

I have not made any tuning to Immich and it loads thumbnails really quickly compared to Nextcloud even over the network through VPN. I was really surprised. Just before I discovered Immich I tried Nextcloud for my photo collection (years and tens of thousands of photos/videos). It felt slow and clunky most of the time and plugins/addons were a bit hit or miss but UI was generally okay. Highly recommend to try out Immich and I will use Nextcloud for files from now on but Immich will be my place for photos/videos.

[@jimdavis3749]

Would you consider making a a 4th video on how to backup and restore immich??

[@EBPOviedo]

Fantastic! Lovely. Thank you for this video!

[@brun0ls]

Hello Spaceinvader One! Please, how about a video with instructions on how to update when a new version drops? Maybe a video covering possible issues doing so. Thanks!

[@ivanjuarez1412]

Great video, love the google takeout pics

[@ravencock]

Works great. I wonder if you could make an unraid guide to setting up matrix-synapse-element please.

[@laurikvo]

Different machine learning settings would be an interesting topic to get more information on. I’ve only used default one and hope they have or update one with better animal detection. The default one works barely like 10-20% of time. As I know I have thousands of pictures and videos of our dog during the years it would help a lot when trying to find those specific ones 😅

[@Sledgemasterrrr]

he said he has a video coming out soon on that. I ended up using the docker compose and just deleting everything in it except for the microservices and machine learning section. Once i did that I just added the device input in devices letting it know of my intern qsv and added the ip in the machine learning settings and its cranking items out!

[@succuvamp_anna]

Can we get a part 4 for GPU Machine Learning?

[@kylejoel87]

Hey Spaceinvaderone, first of all, thank your for all your awesome content. How do we use a GPU within this container. Thank you once again.

[@dmynerd78]

Thanks for the helpful guide! In the future, could the web gui take up the whole screen? The background animation is really distracting.

[@GaryRedgrave]

What is the main reason to use Immich over Nextcloud Photos? Is it worth moving all the photos I have stored in Nextcloud over into Immich?

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Both are great solutions

[@39zack]

I find Nextcloud to be very slow and if I try to upload too much at once i get lots of network errors

[@bransyeah]

Awesome video. Just one question. If I have a 5 part zip from google takeout, does pointing immich go to the first part already uploads the other parts? Or should I do various command lines?

[@o_OOGA_BOOGA_o]

Thank you soooo much for this. Ot worked perfectly for my wofes google photos! Is there any way to do it for Amazon photos as well?

[@DrummerDarwin]

Love your Videos. Do you think you could do as tutorial on how to set up and host Invoice Ninja with Unraid?

[@pjrezai]

Hi Spaceinvader! LOVE your videos! I heard there are some homeassistant videos coming! Is that true??

[@hemanshudhawan8543]

Hi, so my question is, if Immich has different users, then how can I upload a particular takeout file under a particular user?? Does using the specific user API key enough or should I do something differently??

[@DavidCorsalini]

Is there a tool to download the takeout files directly into Unraid, instead of downloading to my pc, then uploading to Unraid? JDownloader doesn't work with the google links.

[@ariveloutsos2492]

@spaceinvader can you do how to do a back of immich?

[@ghostedragon964]

With the new 0.17.1, any idea what does "Immich content: 100% Googel Photo puzzle: 100%" at the bottom of cli interface means? The uploading: xx% is self explanatory

[@iolsen94]

Any update on GPU settings? and Machine learning?

[@de4ek]

howdy. offtopic, but i'd like to know before i just go ahead and do it. i want to swap the 3900x in my unraid rig for a 5950x. can i just swap it out and its all good? or will vm's and things freak out because of the extra cores?

[@NickJones-u4w]

What's the plugin that allows you to upload a file into a share from the unRAID GUI?

[@mbe102]

Is there something like this, for music? Like a build-your-own KZbin Music?

[@sirgriffinman]

Yes

[@39zack]

Plex (with plexamp app), jellyfin, emby just to mention a few

[@39zack]

Plex, emby, jellyfin just to mention a few

Lidarr (for managing), Emby, Jellyfin, Airsonic, Plex for the server side, Symfonium, Finamp, Dsub, Subsonic, Substreamer, Plexamp for the client side.

[@laurikvo]

I use Navidrome and you can use various clients from your devices to access it. In my case I’ve used Substreamer on my phone. There’s plenty of options so find something you like and start experimenting with the options.

[@BalvantPatel]

Was able to Import my photos and albums from Google Photo (58gb)! But Album text and album cover selection are NOT imported currently.

[@masterrudi]

Like the new AI Photos you use

[@GianmariaFadini]

Does happen to someone else to have the error "invalid character '

[@igbatious]

love it, but why are you windowing your already hard to see screen capture? can you please not window it, or just increase the resolution on your desktop while you do your screen capture so the viewer doesn't need a giant monitor to catch what's happening? thank you.

[@ironwoodoverland]

why don't my shares have an upload button? Is there a video on how to add this?

[@chillstar]

Have you got the Dynamix File Manager plugin installed?

[@ironwoodoverland]

@@chillstar I do now! thanks

[@veneratedmortal4369]

You can autocomplete in command line with tab if i remember correctly.

[@josephcarter1892]

Unrelated but is there a way to get amd gpu passthrough into Unraid docker?

[@FranDJ999]

Does anyone know what happens if I want to avoid duplicate stuff of photos coming from a Google Takeout? I probably have 90% photos already directly on Immich, but I wish I could import GPhotos albums and that 10% I might miss. I'm scared to have duplicated photos (or even in lower resolution coming from GPhotos)

[@sevenmmp]

did you ever find an answer to this? Im doing it now but concerned about the same.

[@FranDJ999]

@@sevenmmp Honestly no 😅 I didn't import my Google Photo dump, in order to avoid this possible issue for me

[@NickJones-u4w]

If you use Immich-go it should automatically remove duplicates and keep the highest quality copy. That's basically why it was created 👍

[@mauriceatkinson9520]

The upload using immich-go isnt working for me. I have tried the -dry-run command and it states what it will do but doing the same command as you I see the following messages "Server status: OK Ask for server's assets... 1 asset(s) received Browsing google take out archive... Associating JSON and assets... Done. Ready to upload files" Then it just stays like this. Left it running overnight, and again for hours but nothing is uploaded. I have about 150GB google photo store so I expect it to take sometime but I would expect some indication of progress. The jobs page in immich does not load so no idea as to what is going on. Any idea?

[@ColdSystems]

I am having the same issue. Did you ever find a solution?

[@mauriceatkinson9520]

@@ColdSystems my conclusion was it was a shared related issue. I setup another share and got it to work. However I'mich isn't ready for prime time....I took some photos last week and they don't appear in the phone timeline or on the server. Basically they are lost...ok though on Google photos.

[@matthewperry3484]

When I try this, my cmd hangs on "Ready to upload files", and I cannot seem to do anything at all except close cmd! After entering the command, I get: "Server status: OK Ask for server's assets... 'x' asset(s) received Browsing google take out archive... Associating JSON and assets... Done. Ready to upload files" It holds on "Browsing google take out archive..." for a bit, then goes quickly to "Ready to upload files" where it just stops. Any idea on what's going on here? I managed to get one -dry-run to work all the way, but other than that, this is as far as I can get !

[@ColdSystems]

I am having the same issue. Did you find a solution?

[@ColdSystems]

Just got it working. My issue was I am using the built-in redis and I had the server address as the IP address. Once I changed it it localhost it started working.

[@chengsenh]

How to migrate to new server?

[@eggman9713]

I'm honestly surprised Google Takeout even exists. Did they do that to comply with GDPR or something? Doesn't seem great for their business model.

[@Bramovitz]

It seems to be working fine until it says "Ready to upload files" and then just nothing happens. Anyone else that has this problem or the fix?

[@ColdSystems]

Same problem here, did you find a fix?

[@Bramovitz]

@@ColdSystems unfortunately I didn't :|

[@Bramovitz]

@@ColdSystems I deleted the PostgreSQL and Immich docker. Then also deleted the appdata which is stored. Followed along with all the steps in the videos and now it works for me. Hope it works for you to!

[@mauriceatkinson9520]

Be very careful when you use this as I have seen an entire day of photos I took not appearing in the immich timeline or getting backed up. Basically it looses photos. IMO this system isn't yet ready for prime time usage

[@TechySpeaking]

first

[@DjCuddlebear]

why for the love of god does it have to be so hard to get the google photos anywhere? i get that this is "easy". but only as an one time thing. why cant we have something that gets the files from google photos as they are uploaded. So that you can use your own server as the second backup solution. I understand that the problem is really on googles side. its just. gaaah

[@chillstar]

This is a good example of why so many people have had enough. Most of the commercial cloud solutions are designed to lock you into their systems as much as possible.

[@thedinotamergaming]

First

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

You sure are ! Confirmed 🙂

[@thedinotamergaming]

@@SpaceinvaderOne oh crap, thanks for the reply! While you’re here, do you have any plans to make a tailscale guide, including best practices to keep everything secure? I think you made one before but that’s a long time ago and I was interested to see you use the newer plugin instead of the container. Edit: apparently you haven’t made one, which makes me even more interested to see a few videos on it

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

@@thedinotamergaming yeah i may well do a tailscale video as i use it myself and really like it

[@thedinotamergaming]

@@SpaceinvaderOne Awesome 😁

[@frankboyer1490]

The extremely ugly AI thumbnails don't match the usual quality of your videos and those companies are running it in an extremely unethical way

[@TsiRoadkill]

Ughh im tired of command line let me know when there's a gui

[@starlarkyt]

You don't even have to think. He spells it out for you. Just swap the IP and API for your Immich server. It couldn't get much easier

[@o_OOGA_BOOGA_o]

It was super easy

[@Brianinspain]

After takeout I have many duplicates and can't find it in immich

[@Mushleman]

Anyone knows how to get immich-go to work on a Mac? i have tried to follow the commands but it says zsh: command not found: immich-go

[@coding4lif3]

Have the same issue! I don't understand which version I should use for Apple Silicon Mac. Always getting your sema error :(