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Beware that migrating back from Immich to iCloud/Google is not something Immich cares about. There is no "download all" anywhere, best way is to go to the serve

Beware that migrating back from Immich to iCloud/Google is not something Immich cares about. There is no "download all" anywhere, best way is to go to the server and get raw files from there. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/14365 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/14365

Panda4 3mo ago
A download button would be great but the files are already stored on the device you can copy them with a usb or go on the device and upload it directly.
stogot 3mo ago
There’s no download all in apple photos either unless they added it
- Terretta 3mo ago
  And yet, the same is true for Apple photos about ease of export: If you set the pref to keep originals locally, they're all on your drive, in original form, as well as the derived versions including caches of raw to jpeg, resolutions, and edited versions. That said, Apple Photos does let you export even if only in cloud. Open the library, select all, and File > Export ... > Export Unmodified Originals. It pauses for a second or two on my quarter million images, but is then happy to comply.
  - konart 3mo ago
    Or you can get all you data from https://privacy.apple.com/account https://privacy.apple.com/account
- buildbot 3mo ago
  CMD-A then export all X unmodified originals works fine
  - ivanjermakov 3mo ago
    Except when your library is huge: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/15sa6vg/how_to_download_10000_photos_from_icloud/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/15sa6vg/how_to_downloa...
- konart 3mo ago
  You can download all you Apple data now, including photos. https://privacy.apple.com/account https://privacy.apple.com/account -> "Get a copy of your data" Then you will need to chose the maximum size of an archive part and wait for link to a download page.
- ivanjermakov 3mo ago
  Yes, that's even more stupid! Best way to export photos from iCloud if you don't have mac is to use iCloud from the browser and bulk download from there, but it has a 10k files-per download limit! It also doesn't allow you to select all and partiton download this way, I had to manually increase selection until it's 10k and remember where I started.
wsor4035 3mo ago
maybe I fail to see your point, but following the link, then https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/5068 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/5068 is referenced which is resolved by pr https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/18878 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/18878 adding bulk download functionality (may have manually select all to bulk download, unsure). At any rate I don't see where they say explicitly that they are against it
- ivanjermakov 3mo ago
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willcmcc 3mo ago
what do you mean download all? its your server over your files. If you want them, go get them! Or just point google / apple / whatever upload at your library directory.
tclancy 3mo ago
They’re literally on a disk drive I can physically touch. I think I can figure out a migration strategy for that.
- vachina 3mo ago
  This is symptoms of a chronically cloud-native brain. What is a file system?
- Groxx 3mo ago
  The immediately obvious and simple to handle on-disk format for everything I cared about was one of the things that convinced me to give it a try. Well-crafted exporters are great and all, but I really like being confident that I can convert it by hand even if the company ceases to exist. Backups are easy too: you can very reasonably just rsync the library folder, and it'll be recoverable from that alone (I tried it! Worked great). You'll lose accounts and image-content search and iirc faces (possibly painful), but most of that is trivially rebuilt or not very interesting for single-person scenarios.
- ivanjermakov 3mo ago
  It's tricky with iOS. Plugging iPhone into a server is stupid. Adding server as a network storage in Files app is smarter, but downloading photos this way does not guarantee deduplication. Would be great if Immmich iOS app had a restore functionality as convenient as existing backup functionality.
  - mvdtnz 3mo ago
    You migrate from the server, not the client. You seem confused about what Immich is.
saintfire 3mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something but the linked discussion has a link to a closed issue that links a PR that added the feature you say is missing.
mvdtnz 3mo ago
It's just files on a disc drive. Why do you need a button for this?
Vaslo 3mo ago
I put all my files in a folder. I’d simply get them there. No concern about this at all.

Panda4 3mo ago

A download button would be great but the files are already stored on the device you can copy them with a usb or go on the device and upload it directly.

stogot 3mo ago

There’s no download all in apple photos either unless they added it

Terretta 3mo ago
And yet, the same is true for Apple photos about ease of export: If you set the pref to keep originals locally, they're all on your drive, in original form, as well as the derived versions including caches of raw to jpeg, resolutions, and edited versions. That said, Apple Photos does let you export even if only in cloud. Open the library, select all, and File > Export ... > Export Unmodified Originals. It pauses for a second or two on my quarter million images, but is then happy to comply.
- konart 3mo ago
  Or you can get all you data from https://privacy.apple.com/account https://privacy.apple.com/account
buildbot 3mo ago
CMD-A then export all X unmodified originals works fine
- ivanjermakov 3mo ago
  Except when your library is huge: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/15sa6vg/how_to_download_10000_photos_from_icloud/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/15sa6vg/how_to_downloa...
konart 3mo ago
You can download all you Apple data now, including photos. https://privacy.apple.com/account https://privacy.apple.com/account -> "Get a copy of your data" Then you will need to chose the maximum size of an archive part and wait for link to a download page.
ivanjermakov 3mo ago
Yes, that's even more stupid! Best way to export photos from iCloud if you don't have mac is to use iCloud from the browser and bulk download from there, but it has a 10k files-per download limit! It also doesn't allow you to select all and partiton download this way, I had to manually increase selection until it's 10k and remember where I started.

wsor4035 3mo ago

maybe I fail to see your point, but following the link, then https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/5068 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/5068 is referenced which is resolved by pr https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/18878 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/18878 adding bulk download functionality (may have manually select all to bulk download, unsure). At any rate I don't see where they say explicitly that they are against it

ivanjermakov 3mo ago
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willcmcc 3mo ago

what do you mean download all? its your server over your files. If you want them, go get them! Or just point google / apple / whatever upload at your library directory.

tclancy 3mo ago

They’re literally on a disk drive I can physically touch. I think I can figure out a migration strategy for that.

vachina 3mo ago
This is symptoms of a chronically cloud-native brain. What is a file system?
Groxx 3mo ago
The immediately obvious and simple to handle on-disk format for everything I cared about was one of the things that convinced me to give it a try. Well-crafted exporters are great and all, but I really like being confident that I can convert it by hand even if the company ceases to exist. Backups are easy too: you can very reasonably just rsync the library folder, and it'll be recoverable from that alone (I tried it! Worked great). You'll lose accounts and image-content search and iirc faces (possibly painful), but most of that is trivially rebuilt or not very interesting for single-person scenarios.
ivanjermakov 3mo ago
It's tricky with iOS. Plugging iPhone into a server is stupid. Adding server as a network storage in Files app is smarter, but downloading photos this way does not guarantee deduplication. Would be great if Immmich iOS app had a restore functionality as convenient as existing backup functionality.
- mvdtnz 3mo ago
  You migrate from the server, not the client. You seem confused about what Immich is.

saintfire 3mo ago

Maybe I'm missing something but the linked discussion has a link to a closed issue that links a PR that added the feature you say is missing.

mvdtnz 3mo ago

It's just files on a disc drive. Why do you need a button for this?

Vaslo 3mo ago

I put all my files in a folder. I’d simply get them there. No concern about this at all.