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.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    5 months 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.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      You can set up immich to use external libraries.
      It can ingest your current library without changing anything in the folder structure and it will be alongside it.
      Just make sure to check the external library configuration and immichs documentation before doing anything.

      Also make sure you have a backup :p That doesnt hurt either way

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      5 months 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.