cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47534332

I have spent a long time at Synology Photos, along with my family. We have tags and albums. Is there a good way to migrate? I’m even open to migrating manually (album by album) if I could trust the process.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    I am a fan of Immich but know nothing about Synology. Does Synology have a subscription or something? Immich has done a much better job at tagging things and putting them in to albums than Apple’s Photos ever did for me, it took the stuff that Apple had tagged and than did a much better job.

    • puck2@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 hours ago

      Synology is not a subscription, and comes w/ Synology device. It is fine but is missing some features. Moving is a bear though so maybe I should make sure it’s really worth it.

      • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 hour ago

        Moving should be fairly simple really.

        Make a docker container and point Immich to the photo directory.

        If I’m not mistaken, Immich copies the photos and sorts them, so you should be able to run both setups simultaneously without touching the Synology setup.

        • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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          7 minutes ago

          Some Synology devices aren’t capable of dealing with docker containers. Just to keep that in mind.