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?
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.
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.
Could you elaborate, what shared albums? Shared with you? Are you referring to this problem?
She this is a pita
Does it properly handle takeouts exif data?
Yes.