Comment on recommendations for selfhosted photo backup solution: folders vs albums?
zako@lemmy.world 1 year agoAFAIK immich organize photos with albums not in folders. So, If i move from immich to another software (librephotos, photoprism…), the new software is aware of albums? I am worried on organizing my photos every time I change of photo management application.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 year ago
That’s an organizational issue. I think almost all photo software (except lychee) is more “hands-off, everything internal” because of a few reasons:
If you sync between clients, do you want the software constantly shuffling files around on every device if something is changed in one album?
if you have chronological folders, do you want to make duplicates (double or triple the space) for every album including said picture?
If you work with albums, how do you deal with random folders not in albums?
how do you deal with conflicts of photos being put in different albums on different synced devices?
The solution for all of these is “leave the files where they are” and deal with everything via databases to organize photos. This way you can export or download albums for giving to someone and it will just pull all of the relevant files without having sync or reorganization issues.