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I need to put some order with the photos I take and I receive with my android phone. Just now I use Nextcloud sync client to upload and Photo/Memories Nextcloud Apps to manage photos.

However, I am not very happy with this setup because of the lack of one Android Application for photos and, thus, the photo gallery of my phone is totally different to the Photo/Memories timeline. And photos are not deleted from my mobile phone when I delete them in Photo/Memories. Which selfhosted photo manager do you think is better to backup and manage photos in sync with the phone?

A second question, is it better to manage the photo gallery with a folder structure or with the album functionality of the Photo application? Which is the best interoperable solution? If I use albums in Memories then I can export those albums to Immich, Librephotos... ? Or I would have to create all the albums again after the export?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (12 children)

i'm a fan of immich, but i don't think it deletes photos from your phone when deleting it on the server.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I wanted to try Immich but I quickly found out you can't simply point it at an existing folder structure like say Plex or Jellyfin. You have to "import" all your files via a client and if you're like me and already have thousands of images in Nextcloud then even with their bulk upload CLI tool it is too much of a hassle.

Plus I don't want to be locked into their format, I want to be able to switch if the project goes under or I find something better later on. Nextcloud's photo management is not great but I am willing to sack some speed and usability for using raw folders rather than a database.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's planned to allow pointing immich to a directory as a read only gallery. This wouldn't import the images, but still show them.

Can't find it atm on my phone though.

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