I would like to try Immich and at the same time I am already using Nextcloud to sync all my photos from my phone. Is there a way to keep my photos on Nextcloud?
Best way to use Immich with my photos on Nextcloud?
3 years ago by sruiz to c/selfhosted
supersheep 4 points 3 years ago
I’m using Nextcloud to sync my photos and use the read-only feature of Immich which works really well. I have a cronjob to automatically sync the latest photos into Immich over night which also works quite nicely.
randomname01 10 points 3 years ago
What are you trying to achieve, OP? As far as I understand you want to use Nextcloud to sync your photos and then want to use Immich to view them?
Because if that’s the case, it doesn’t make the most sense currently. Immich currently isn’t a full featured photo library manager, but rather a tool to back up photos from your phone and smartly display those. It’s currently not geared toward at displaying existing photo libraries.
A number of other applications (PhotoPrism, Photoview, LibrePhotos, Piwigo) are better suited to do that, although it is planned for Immich if I understood correctly.
scrchngwsl 2 points 3 years ago
Not OP but that's really useful to know!
morethanevil 4 points 3 years ago
Both are using a different database and structure. If you already use nextcloud, then use the memories insteead
randomname01 2 points 3 years ago
Nextcloud uses a normal file structure per user, so you could also point any other gallery app (PhotoPrism, Photoview, LibrePhotos, Piwigo) towards the data folder Nextcloud uses. And yeah, Memories is an option as well.
supersheep 3 points 3 years ago
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norgur 1 point 3 years ago
thanks! I just switched an... well... it's buggy :( I had a bunch of photos that read with a wrong date from the EXIF apparently. I then edited the EXIF in Memories to show the correct date and... now it just shows them as taken today. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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supersheep 1 point 3 years ago
I had similar issues with memories, so that’s why I switched to Immich last week. So currently I still sync using Nextcloud to a specific directory and then use the read-only functionality of Immich. I also used Photoview for a period of time which also works quite nice, but the app gets updated less often than Immich’s app and also has less functionality. In the end I hope to completely move to Immich when syncing works both ways.
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They have started implementing read-only folders for Immich with the latest release. And it does actually work pretty well.
However it currently is a very manual process via the command line (and not very well documented, especially for docker) and it has limited features as it does not automatically sync new images and does not remove deleted images from its database yet.
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