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.

  • puck2@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 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.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      31 minutes ago

      Just stand it up and copy over a sample set. It’ll take like two hours tops. Play around and see if you like it. I did it and had the fancy features working right out of the box.

      If you’ve used Google Photos, it’s almost an exact clone.

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours 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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        46 minutes ago

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