I’m kind of surprised I’ve struggled with this so long. Right now I’ve been using nextcloud camera upload, and mostly it works ok but shits the bed once in a while without me noticing and I need to spend time fixing it and it’s never as simple as turning it off and on again.

I recently tried syncthing, and while it works, it frequently crashed and got stuck in a state where it says it’s on and working by my destination folder is shown as disconnected, and the options to restart syncthing from the side menu are greyed out and the only way to make it work again is by force closing it and reopening it.

I’m running vanilla stock Google Android and truenas, does anyone have a better solution?

  • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    How can I sync all my photos locally to a new phone / device? Last I tried it, I had to sync one picture at a time

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      I wouldnt use immich like that.
      You backup your images to immich.
      Once there, you keep them there primarily and stream what you need (redownloading like it works on Google photos doesnt work like that as it stores the pictures in it’s own folder).
      At least that’s how I use it.

      • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        Hm ok. I prefer to have a complete set of pictures on the phone in case the server goes to shit, as a third backup

        I think I will stick to syncthing

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          In theory you can do that.
          It just doesnt redownload to (usually) DCIM.
          But say you upload your DCIM folder to immich, they are both on-device and on your server.
          Until you delete them on the phone.

          • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 hours ago

            In my case, I got a new phone and expected I could use Immich to reupload all the images to the new phone. But that didn’t seem the case. With syncthing, it was easy.

            But you lose the other benefits of immich when using syncthing, like sharing. the gallery app on my phone does a lot of the other things like faces, map …

            • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              5 hours ago

              Yeah in that use case syncthing fits more than immich.
              In theory you probably could use immich.
              During a phone replacement you pause immich sync, use syncthing to transfer the pictures and then enable immich sync again.

              I believe immich should be able to detect those “new” pictures as duplicates and not upload it again.