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Should I switch from Synology Photos to Immich? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47534332

I have spent a long time at Synology Photos, along with my family. We have tags and albums. Is there a good way to migrate? I'm even open to migrating manually (album by album) if I could trust the process.

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I am a fan of Immich but know nothing about Synology. Does Synology have a subscription or something? Immich has done a much better job at tagging things and putting them in to albums than Apple’s Photos ever did for me, it took the stuff that Apple had tagged and than did a much better job.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    a lot of the posts about Immich are a few years old. has it improved?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    What a question... :D

    Anyway: YES.

    I'd go as far as to say, it's infamous state of being fragile as fuck, every update is a breaking change and needing to read every changelog before updating is a bit outdated.
    But they are still working on it quite a bit.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I only really started getting deep into self hosting when the orange guy started threatening to make Canada the 51st state. So that is when I found immich, not sure how far I was into Lemmy when I found it but I have no complaints.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Synology is not a subscription, and comes w/ Synology device. It is fine but is missing some features. Moving is a bear though so maybe I should make sure it's really worth it.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    You can set up immich to use external libraries.
    It can ingest your current library without changing anything in the folder structure and it will be alongside it.
    Just make sure to check the external library configuration and immichs documentation before doing anything.

    Also make sure you have a backup :p That doesnt hurt either way

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Moving should be fairly simple really.

    Make a docker container and point Immich to the photo directory.

    If I'm not mistaken, Immich copies the photos and sorts them, so you should be able to run both setups simultaneously without touching the Synology setup.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    Just stand it up and copy over a sample set. It'll take like two hours tops. Play around and see if you like it. I did it and had the fancy features working right out of the box.

    If you've used Google Photos, it's almost an exact clone.

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