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I'm trying to decide how to import my Google Photos Takeout backup. I see two general ways:

  • Import it by uploading it to Immich (immich-go, etc.)
  • Add it as an External library

Has anyone done it one way or the other? Any recommendation, pros/cons or gotchas?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Immich-go is stupid easy.

Just dump all your takeout zips in the same folder as immich-go and run the import. Lmk if you need help.

It ingested 60+ zips with 100gb of photos when I used it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Jumping in to second immich-go, just used it recently. I had no issues other than Google Photos not giving me the data for shared albums (most of mine), which seems to be a Google Takeout issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Could you elaborate, what shared albums? Shared with you? Are you referring to this problem?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

To answer my own Q, yes, anything shared by others with you isn't in the takeout backup. You have to go to each such album and do Download All. Then you can import it with immich-go with the correct album name. If you already have that album, it will just add the missing content to it.

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