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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.

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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I did this. I kept both.

I have Synology photos and immich.

Synology photo is faster to load photos when you scroll to a random date. Also on mobile, the map view is fast and reliable. Also the Android widget can show images of a specific person instead of a random photo.

Immich has better face detection and significantly better search tool. But is super laggy when you're looking for a specific date and time and location.

My Synology is a DS 1821+ with dual nvme cache and 32gb mem My immich is running on a proxmox using a late model Xeon processor and NVME gen 3 and 32gb mem. Nothing else is running on the proxmox.

[–] puck2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you have duplicate data or they are reading the same data?

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I have too much data to have it on the proxmox. The source of truth is on the Synology and I have the proxmox running the immich database and thumbnails.

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