Remember that you can buy Immich to support the project, and that you should!
Hopefully nondestructive editing is optional. drives me nuts when I just want to crop or make a minor edit to something and my photo app duplicates my photo to protect the original. A couple of steps worth of undo in limited memory is fine, I don’t need a permanent backup of the original of every photo.
As far as I understand, it doesn’t keep copies of the different edits. The original file is saved, and the edits are serialized and stored in some form. Only one more copy is generated for the final version for preview and such. When editing again, you can add to or subtract from previous edits, and again a maximum of two files will be present. (But there would be no thumbnail, preview etc. for the original. So it isn’t exactly double the storage usage.)
This is my vague recollection from what I’ve read in the discussions, so take it with a grain of salt. But this is close to what’s happening when you’re editing.
Awesome, can’t wait to update!
Anybody made the switch to this from Apple photos? How was the migration? Did Live Photos etc all just work?
I had problems a few years ago where Live Photos were split into video and photo - which to be fair it’s what they are
Did this getting my wife’s photos from her iPhone on our server a couple years ago, it works perfectly fine as long as you have storage on the phone still. If a lot of the photos are only in your iCloud backup, it’ll have to download them locally do transfer to Immich. We kept running into an issue where it was stuck in a stupid loop of filling up the phone, then trying to offload to iCloud, then trying to redownload them to transfer to Immich. Only a problem if you have more photos/videos than your phone can store and if you’re doing it directly from the phone. If everything is already backed up on iCloud you can use something like icloudpd (GitHub link) to do the transfer instead. I have not tested this method
Never used Apple Photos so not sure about the migration. But I can confirm that live photos work just fine.
Immich’s problem is that its UI was written by someone who doesnt know how to design a UI
immich’s UI is one of the best I’ve seen in an open-source app, even considering its Material design
For a fantastic UI, see open source app Navidrome
Oof, bad take.
I think the UI is pretty good, though I personally feel it could be much more responsive. There are various small improvements I could suggest but nothing to make a blanket statement like that.
What are your actual complaints with it?
I do agree with you, but it’s pretty much an imitation of Google Photos, which is what they were going for.
