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  • Immich and Picasa – Past and Future

    Immich and Picasa – Past and Future

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThose of us that are geeky, and old enough, will remember when apps were local and we saved data to internal and external hard drives. We would take photos with a camera, or a phone, and once we got home we would download them to our computer, using apps like Picasa and…

  • Immich and External Libraries

    Immich and External Libraries

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOver two or three years I have been playing with Immich. In that time I have exported my photos from two or three phones multiple times. The reason for me importing photos multiple times is that every so often I update immich and something breaks. It is at this point that I…

  • Immich and an M.2 NVMe Drive on a Pi

    Immich and an M.2 NVMe Drive on a Pi

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesImmich is an easy to install and use app that works well with the Pi5. By default you will have it run on the SD card but yesterday I finally found an NVMe drive at a reasonable price so I swapped the AI kit for a 521 NVMe drive.It was detected with…

  • A Move from Self-Hosting on a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb Continued

    A Move from Self-Hosting on a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb Continued

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I shifted my data and setup from the Pi5 8gb to the Pi5 4gb with relative ease. I rsynched the data from one Pi to the other, brought up the docker containers, checked that they were working before shutting down the other Pi. I then swapped the 8gb Pi with the…

  • Playing with Nextcloud Ambitiously and Crashing Immich

    Playing with Nextcloud Ambitiously and Crashing Immich

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I decided to play with Nextcloud more ambitiously. I set up four synchronisations, one for documents, one for photos, one for downloads and one for desktop. I did it this way because if I went to my root user account and backed everything up I would backup files that are…

  • The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

    The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are several types of people. One of them is youtubers that try and fail until they succeed, and then there are people like me, who also try and fail until they succeed. In one case the individual probably gets millions of views, and earns enough to waste hundreds of dollars per…

  • Immich and iPhone Storage

    Immich and iPhone Storage

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen experimenting with the Immich iPhone app I found it impossible to upload beyond 15,000 images and I supposed that it was because the phone timed out before it had checked all the previous files before moving on to the last four thousand images. In reality the problem is that Immich downloads…

  • Installing Immich Alongside Photoprism

    Installing Immich Alongside Photoprism

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesLast night I installed Immich on an HP laptop with ease. The issue I came up against is that laptops sleep and hibernate after a few minutes unless you are actively using them. This means that you need to use them whilst files are being transferred if you do not want tasks…