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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live
(www.forbes.com)
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How did you transfer them? Was it an annoying process?
takeout.google.com
Like the other comment said, I did a Google takeout of my photos, then used immich-go to transfer them. Was pretty painless, got it done in a few hours, probs less if I was less dummy.
Here's the guide I followed.
My problem is that I can't download the whole takeout before it expires. Or some fail and they only allow so many retries to download.
Really weird, I've never had a takeout download limit or issue; does it fail on both .tgz and .zip versions? Maybe try just outright downloading a few batches of pics at a time and then uploading them to Immich.
I'll have to give it another try and report back. I think it is like 2TB total so I didn't have enough time to get it on my 100 Mbps. And then some of them failing and having to restart was not helping.
Thank you! I didn't realize you could just do a Takeout. I started the process last night and hopefully will be able to transfer them soon. It was completed relatively quickly, so I wonder if it will really have everything...
My takeout had everything, even random shit I should've deleted forever ago lol. I'd just check for the most important pics (weddings, vacations, etc.) that you would actually be devestated to lose. You can always wait a month or so before deleting to verify your media transferred fine.
I went ahead and deleted everything. Ended up being about ~60 GB, since I only ever used standard compressed storage. It was weird going back through all those photos, but at least I can save them locally now.