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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wouldnt use immich like that.
  You backup your images to immich.
  Once there, you keep them there primarily and stream what you need (redownloading like it works on Google photos doesnt work like that as it stores the pictures in it’s own folder).
  At least that’s how I use it.

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  • conrad82@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Hm ok. I prefer to have a complete set of pictures on the phone in case the server goes to shit, as a third backup

    I think I will stick to syncthing

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In theory you can do that.
      It just doesnt redownload to (usually) DCIM.
      But say you upload your DCIM folder to immich, they are both on-device and on your server.
      Until you delete them on the phone.

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      • conrad82@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        In my case, I got a new phone and expected I could use Immich to reupload all the images to the new phone. But that didn’t seem the case. With syncthing, it was easy.

        But you lose the other benefits of immich when using syncthing, like sharing. the gallery app on my phone does a lot of the other things like faces, map …

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Do a one-time copy of your photos using SFTP or FolderSync or whatever works for you.

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