What is your best method for a bulk upload to Immich?

[nebulon]

Didn't know of the bulk upload cli tool! I also have a todo item to import lots of pictures and have done it so far through the browser, but this is quite cumbrsome. In my case though I can drop pictures into the browser around 50 each time, otherwise browser memory consumption exceeds my laptop resources.

Do you see any errors after only 2 images then? This should not happen.

[luckow]

Ok. Your answer helped me dig deeper. It has nothing to do with Immich. It is a local network issue. I tried to sync my archive on a Synology NAS through my laptop on a WiFi network. I have no idea why there is such a limitation. But everything after two images at the same time, brings that:

Now I copied a folder with about 800 images to my laptop and tried both: the browser (yes, it works with 30+ items) and the CLI. Try the CLI. It's much easier than bulk upload via the browser.

[LoudLemur]

Bulk uploads for Immich work fine here. I like Immich a lot. Thanks to Cloudron for making deployment so easy!

[nebulon]

Just to report here also, the cli tool worked really well for me.

[p44]

Hello @luckow, I'm looking for a self-hosted alternative to Dropbox to store all my photos and videos (about 20 years).

Basically, I would like to change because Dropbox is very slow in displaying and loading previews of very old photos.

Do you think Immich is right for me?

Of course, to stay on topic with the post, I would have to do a "bulk upload" or figure out how to transfer all photos and videos from Dropbox, but first I would like to have an idea if Immich could be right for me.

[LoudLemur]

@p44 said in What is your best method for a bulk upload to Immich?:

t first I would like to have an idea if Immich could be right for me.

Try a bulk upload of a few images on the Cloudron Demo to see how it works.

The Immich development team say that the project is under heavy development and it shouldn't currently be used as the main archive for your images.

You might like to look at Lychee as well / instead. Or even Piwigo, both of which are on Cloudron.

[p44]

Great @LoudLemur!

I'll go to take a look to Lychee and Piwigo.

Thank's a lot

[nebulon]

I can highly recommend immich, have been personally using it since we packaged it and it works already really well as well as is very actively improved and developed.

[luckow]

@p44 From what I have learned: Move all the images to your computer and upload them from your computer (instead of bulk uploading from the remote site). But try to upload some of them via the remote site (Dropbox) first. Maybe your local network is more reliable than mine.
I really like immich. I first tried Piwigo and Lychee, but was then satisfied with Immich.
Depending on other apps, think about app backup. A full backup tgz with hundreds of GBs every night may not be the best option.

[p44]

@luckow Thank's a lot for your advices!

[jdaviescoates]

@p44 just in case it might fit your use case Nextcloud Photos is pretty good these days too

[LoudLemur]

@nebulon said in What is your best method for a bulk upload to Immich?:

I can highly recommend immich

Can concur. The only issue I have with it is that sometimes one of the (quite frequent) updates doesn't happen the first try. It needs a manual update which often doesn't work. If you leave it alone, it eventually manages it though.

I don't know why this happens.

[nebulon]

What I found with bulk uploads, that with all the postprocessing happening in immich its easy to exhaust the system resources when uploading 1000+ photos using the cli at once. So make sure to up the memory limit during the import and watch the immich jobs via the admin UI. Or just give it time.

[p44]

@nebulon Thank's a lol, I'll take a deeper look inside Cloudron demo.