Comment on Would this flow work with Immich & Syncthing to copy images and auto upload and delete?

Esca@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Mir@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  (except I manually sort through my photos on a semi-weekly basis before I upload it to Immich).

  I think that would be a better approach if I weren’t very lazy, I think even after the initial run I could do that since I don’t take lots of pictures but I was thinking about a fire and forget sort of thing.

  If you want, I can cook up a little Python script you could stick into Cron to do all the tasks you described.

  Thank you so much, I asked ChatGPT and it generated the bat file below (since I’m using Windows) do you think this would work?

  @echo off
  REM Change directory to your photos folder
  cd /d "C:\path\to\your\photos\folder"
  
  REM Sync files to backup folder
  robocopy . "C:\path\to\your\Camera_Backup" /mir /xo
  
  REM Delete files older than 15 days
  forfiles /p "C:\path\to\your\photos\folder" /s /m *.* /d -15 /c "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE del @file"
  
  REM Upload assets using immich cli
  immich upload "C:\path\to\your\Camera_Backup" -r -a --delete
  

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  • Esca@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, I am not familiar at all with Windows, so I honestly wouldn’t know. Does the Immich CLI even work on Windows?

    But going off by the comments and the parts I understand, I guess it could kinda work, assuming that the arguments are all correct. Although, it will try to upload all photos every time, regardless if Immich already has them or not. Which is not ideal but I believe Immich will filter out duplicated photos. But it’s worth checking if it’s indeed smart enough to do that.

    For the Immich command it will upload the files to an album called “Camera_Backup”. Not sure if that’s what you want. If not, then remove the -a flag. If you want to upload it to a specific album, then instead add ‘-A albumname’

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    • Mir@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Although, it will try to upload all photos every time

      I will use the argument which makes it delete after upload, this way if it wasn’t deleted then it wasn’t uploaded and needs to be uploaded, hopefully the CLI is smart to do so.

      I want it to use the folder name as album name, I was hoping that it would do the same for nested folders

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      • Esca@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The --delete flag is already in there so it should empty the camera_backup folder, but the robocopy will copy every single photo back into it the next run.

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