PSA: Getting out of Google Photos is both easy and super rewarding if you can run Immich and use Google Takeout. It’s also better than Google Photos.

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-pho...

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jimmydddd 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Does Takeout work if you have say 1K or maybe 2K photos?

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yreg 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Immich is fantastic.

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boplicity an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

takeout rarely works. Usually fails partway through the export.

	▲	philsnow a few seconds ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Export to google drive, use rclone to copy it out of google drive. Much, much more robust. The multi-day wait while they prepare the takeout for download, though... I have forgotten about more takeout exports than I have actually downloaded.
	▲	kennyadam 40 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Not my experience at all. As part of my job, I’ve used takeout to export the data from hundreds of accounts, with total sizes ranging from <1GB to >500GB, without any issues. I genuinely can’t remember a time that it has failed.
	▲	akkartik 22 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I can relate. I often have to try multiple times with ~800GB of data. I still want to get out though, if only to not reward bad Takeout experience.

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the_real_cher 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I use Immmich plus Tailscale.

Chefs kiss

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Terr_ an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That's on my someday-list. Immich through its rootless-docker configuration impressed me, but I've still gotta get around to figuring how I can provide access to family members. (I mean, I could buy some suitable hardware that isn't my desktop, but prices these days, amirite?)

	▲	Gigachad 8 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Immich is not heavy. I bought an old mini pc from a second hand government office supplies website and it runs all my self hosted apps perfect with tons of room to spare. I think the main thing is storage speed matters which is why a mini pc with an ssd runs circles around a raspberry pi running off a microsd card.
	▲	cyberax 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I hosted Immich on an 8-year-old Intel NUC. It worked faster than Google Photos locally.

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jmathai an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Same. It’s been set and forget for me.