Dismal Manor Gang<p>The plan is to put all the Google Photos takeout in a local Ente instance running on the 45homelab HL4. The stack is running. I used Houston UI and Portainer-CE for most of the installation work.</p><p>The trick was to edit the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ente" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ente</span></a></span> quick start script to map the volumes and make other changes. I slipped in an exit after generation of .yaml files was complete. </p><p>The health check of Postgres took some fiddling as Rocky 8 Podman was using the early syntax.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeLab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EntePhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EntePhotos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Cockpit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cockpit</span></a></p>
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Uckermark MacGyver :nonazi:<p>I'm still fighting with my Google Takeout data. The last two days I tried to enrich the images with missing metadata inside the file with the metadata provided as supplemental JSON files by Google. I case you might find this helpful, check out: <a href="https://github.com/maxheadroom/GoogleTakeoutHelper/tree/main" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/maxheadroom/GoogleT</span><span class="invisible">akeoutHelper/tree/main</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hub.uckermark.social/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> <a href="https://hub.uckermark.social/tags/GooglePhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePhotos</span></a></p>
scy<p>Oh, seit wann gibt's das denn? Google Takeout (der Dienst, mit dem du deine Daten exportieren kannst) kann dir jetzt nicht nur nen Downloadlink per Mail schicken, sondern deinen Export auch direkt in Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive oder Box ablegen. Und sogar automatisiert alle zwei Monate nen neuen Export anstoßen. (Und .tgz statt .zip verwenden, und verschiedene Split-Größen für die erstellten Files: 1, 2, 4, 10 oder 50 GB.)</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UnplugTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnplugTrump</span></a></p>
Mike P.<p>So <a href="https://det.social/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> läuft.</p><p>Jemand eine gute Lösung um die MBOX Datei in eine Mailbox bei <a href="https://det.social/tags/hetzner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hetzner</span></a> zu Importieren?</p>
Jools<p>Ich leg heute noch einen nach... :wink: nun habe ich noch die Anleitung für die Google-Photos - Alternative <i>Immich</i> geschrieben. Diese baut auf meine vorherige Installations-Anleitung für Docker und Portainer auf. Hiermit lässt sich in wenigen Minuten schnell und einfach eine eigene Photo-Cloud im lokalen Netzwerk installieren. Die passende App gibt es auch dafür.</p><p><br><b>Link:</b> <a href="https://blogzwo.me/immich-eigene-foto-cloud-im-heimischen-netzwerk-installationsanleitung-und-erfahrungsbericht.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BlogZwo.me - Immich: Eigene Foto-Cloud im heimischen Netzwerk - Installationsanleitung und Erfahrungsbericht</a></p><p><br><a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>docker</span></a>, #, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=raspi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raspi</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=anleitung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anleitung</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=foto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foto</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=fotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fotos</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=photos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photos</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=googlealternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlealternatives</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=googlephotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlephotos</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=googletakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googletakeout</span></a>, <a href="https://missocial.de/search?tag=immich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immich</span></a></p>
Simon Zerafa<p>If anyone is using the Google Takeout service to download and archive your Google data then the best way to download the actual .ZIP files seems to be to use the Google Drive Windows app 🤔</p><p>Elect to have your Takeout .ZIP's delivered to your Google online storage (assuming you have enough free space).</p><p>Install the Google Drive app and then use this to download the .ZIP files from the Windows Explorer view of the Drive (typically Drive G:).</p><p>One you have them locally delete the Takeout .ZIP files from Google Drive and then uninstall the Google Drive app if you have no use for it 😊</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GoogleTakeOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeOut</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GoogleDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleDrive</span></a></p>
What's a fun name?<p>My life for the next day or so is to click on the Download link, wait for the page to refresh & ask for my passkey (I'm on a Mac), then refresh again, then load the Download location dialogue box, then proceed with downloading the file which takes aprox. 40'. </p><p>Yes, I have to go over this process 22 times.</p><p>It's so easy and beautiful to get in. It is when you decide to pull out that you see the ugliness.</p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/GooglePhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePhotos</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/GoogleOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleOne</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/GoogleCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleCloud</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/FuckOffGoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckOffGoogle</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/FuckOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckOff</span></a></p>
Iñaki de Miguel Díaz :verified_aroace:<p>Me he hecho un script rapido en python para pasar los mensajes de <a href="https://masto.es/tags/Gmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gmail</span></a> bajados en formato <a href="https://masto.es/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbox</span></a> con <a href="https://masto.es/tags/googletakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googletakeout</span></a> con fecha a partir del 1 de enero de 2023 a un nuevo fichero mbox para importar en <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Tutanota</span></a></span> el mobox completo de 15GB ya está <a href="https://masto.es/tags/7z" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>7z</span></a> con contraseña en un <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@veracrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>veracrypt</span></a></span> si todo va bien compartiré el python en un gist (es mu tonto y muy a lo rápido eso si).</p><p><a href="https://masto.es/tags/dataprivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataprivacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/ethicaldata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethicaldata</span></a></p>
EighthLayer (Old Account)<p>Trying to export from <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/GooglePhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePhotos</span></a> is a nightmare. :eighthlayer_facepalm: </p><p>Could go through <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> and download the 170GB worth of photos and video from there, but they don’t have embedded EXIF data, but a separate JSON file for each photo/video instead. </p><p>Alternative is going through and manually selecting each to download which then includes the EXIF data. </p><p><a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/DeGoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeGoogle</span></a></p>
Peter Beens :canada: :mstdnca:<p>When was the last time you backed up your Google account? </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://takeout.google.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">takeout.google.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
\๏/eg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://datasci.social/@EgorKotov" class="u-url mention">@<span>EgorKotov</span></a></span> this post discusses options for automating <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> beyond the "every 2 months for 6 months" setting that pushes your files to a dropbox <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/716756/how-to-automate-regular-google-takeout-backups-to-cloud-storage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">superuser.com/questions/716756</span><span class="invisible">/how-to-automate-regular-google-takeout-backups-to-cloud-storage</span></a></p><p>So then you could connect it to a script like <a href="https://github.com/CalculatedCausality/Google-Maps-Timeline-Parser" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/CalculatedCausality</span><span class="invisible">/Google-Maps-Timeline-Parser</span></a></p>
\๏/eg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://datasci.social/@EgorKotov" class="u-url mention">@<span>EgorKotov</span></a></span> the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> tool has way too many options to scroll through, so I quickly wrote a Chrome automation with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GreasyFork" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreasyFork</span></a> to save you time: <a href="https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/517624-google-timeline-auto-download" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5176</span><span class="invisible">24-google-timeline-auto-download</span></a></p>
Emil Sit<p>So, it's known-ish that there are timezone and metadata issues with Google Takeout, to the point that there is this tool <a href="https://metadatafixer.com/learn/how-to-export-images-google-photos-takeout" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">metadatafixer.com/learn/how-to</span><span class="invisible">-export-images-google-photos-takeout</span></a> — not sure if this is my problem, but it's not a great sign. <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/googletakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googletakeout</span></a></p>
Emil Sit<p>I’m starting to think that the only reasonable thing to do is to delete everything it imported and reload from my backups. It doesn’t seem as easy as “offset everything by 4 hours” as I’m seeing some photos with different offsets. 😭 Other ideas welcome. <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/googletakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googletakeout</span></a> <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fail</span></a></p>
Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers<p>Just looks like an easier way to get all your photos back.</p><p>Google Photos will soon seamlessly transfer to Apple’s iCloud </p><p><a href="https://www.engadget.com/google-photos-will-soon-seamlessly-transfer-to-apples-icloud-205521915.html?src=rss" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">engadget.com/google-photos-wil</span><span class="invisible">l-soon-seamlessly-transfer-to-apples-icloud-205521915.html?src=rss</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/GooglePhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePhotos</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/iCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iCloud</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> <a href="https://toot.majorshouse.com/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a></p>
David Hall<p>Apparently I only get data connected to the Google Youtube account, not data from the legacy Youtube account (that is connected to my Google account). Thanks to this post, <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54031/how-to-use-google-takeout-for-youtube-data-in-an-old-youtube-account" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">webapps.stackexchange.com/ques</span><span class="invisible">tions/54031/how-to-use-google-takeout-for-youtube-data-in-an-old-youtube-account</span></a>, I find out that the legacy accounts are called brand accounts and there is a more convoluted way of getting data from that. </p><p>I am now waiting for the data to appear. Seems to take much longer than the previous exports.</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Youtube</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/dataSubjectRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataSubjectRights</span></a></p>
💐 🏖 🌺 𝕂𝕚𝕂𝕚<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://socks.masto.host/@John" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>John</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DenOfEarth</span></a></span> P.S. I didn’t know what <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> was, so I had to look it up.</p><p><a href="https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-google-takeout-4173795" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lifewire.com/what-is-google-ta</span><span class="invisible">keout-4173795</span></a></p>
Cloud68.co 🟣<p>Break free from Big Tech 🔓 ! Use Google Takeout to liberate your data and migrate to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nextcloud</span></a> for more control and privacy. </p><p> Here's how: <a href="https://cloud68.co/blog/migrate-from-bigtech-to-nextcloud-with-googletakeout" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cloud68.co/blog/migrate-from-b</span><span class="invisible">igtech-to-nextcloud-with-googletakeout</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RiseAgainstBigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RiseAgainstBigTech</span></a></p>
richard<p><span class=""><span class="">Reading Time: </span> <span class="">5</span> <span class="">minutes</span></span></p><p>Yesterday I started the proper migration of my Google Photo assets from Google Takeout to <a href="https://www.photoprism.app/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">PhotoPrism</a>. The first step was to mount the drives to the linux system, the second was to transfer the photos from the external hard drive to the internal SD card, unzip them, and then start imposing assets.</p><p>The first bottle neck is exporting 800 gigabytes from Google drive to a local drive. I chose to download the files in one gigabyte packages in fifty gigabyte sets over many hours. This depends on your connection so the experience will vary.</p><p><strong>Moving Between Disks</strong></p><p>The second bottle neck is when moving the files from an external hard drive to a microsd card. The transfer can be quite time consuming which is part of my reason for using a Pi, rather than a laptop. A laptop would be much faster but it will time out unless you tell it not to sleep. The issue with that is that laptops are not designed to be un for days at a time, without sleeping every so often. Once the Pi is working you can leave it to work.</p><p>Ideally I would keep the files on the external drive and skip this time consuming step. I wanted to test the feasability of using an SD card, to keep things tidy once the time consuming phase is over.</p><p><strong>Unzipping</strong></p><p>PhotoPrism needs files to be unzipped to work. This can be a time consuming task if you do so with the Pi, rather than a laptop or desktop. I would recommend unzipping the files ahead of moving the files from an external drive to an internal drive. At the time of writing I did not find a quick way of unzipping files with a single command.</p><p><strong>Importing From the Import Folder</strong></p><p>PhotoPrism has an import folder. This is where you extract your unzipped Google Takeout Folders to. Select “move files” to delete all files that have been automatically imported. Click import and then PhotoPrism does the rest. This is the stage that takes the most time. PhotoPrism orgqanises the photos by year, month, date, location, tags, and people. This is the stage where you can go for a walk, or enjoy a good night of sleep because it will take hours to complete.</p><p>I am not clear whether the JSON files for images are always zipped within the same archive or whether they are zipped once every few files. This is part of my reason for experimenting with ingesting several gigabytes at a time, rather than one folder at a time. The second reason is that if I give it tasks that take hours it gives me no excuse to procrastinate. That’s what I did before writing this blog post.</p><p><strong>Recognising Faces</strong></p><p>PhotoPrism recognises faces but it doesn’t create a “person” until it has several images. When it does have several images it gives you the opportunity to name that face, or add it to a pre-existing face. It’s nice to watch as faces from your past re-appear, and amusing when you realise how many names you have forgotten, as well as seeing which ones you clearly remember.</p><p><strong>Recognising Places</strong></p><p>At the moment when I am writing this post it has recognised 200 places and 15 states. When it recognises a place you can search by country via the search tool, or by location with the map. States are towns, villages or regions. This is a useful way of organising photos because it shows how much you travel, but also how many places you have been to, once you zoom in enough.</p><p><strong>Cameras</strong></p><p>This tool, by reading EXIF info, makes it possible to search for photos by camera. You can search for 360 photos with insta360 or photos from years ago with canon s70 or Canon EOS 5 MkII etc.</p><p><strong>Categories</strong></p><p>If you’re looking for photos of food, or aircrafts, or goats, or sheep, or monuments, or historical, you can. It also allows you to seach by colours, for example teal for grass and diving or blue for sunny days and more. </p><p><strong>Years and Months</strong></p><p>It is possible to search by year or by month, or both. You can search for December images to see if you can find images of snow, or you can search for June and yellow to find images of drought.</p><p><strong>Import and Log</strong></p><p>Two tabs that I spent time watching last night when I first started to import Google Photos properly were “import” and “log”.</p><p>The import tab is important because it allows you to know whether files are being imported or not so this allows you to decide whether to import more images or not. I prefer to import 50 gigabytes, clear the import directory, and then import the next 50 gigabytes, rather than to leave it to run for hours and assume that everything was imported correctly. If something fails I like to know when it’s easier to fix. So far I am under the impression that photos are, at the very least, imported into folders by year and month, as well as indexed automatically based on content.</p><p>I like to watch the logs to see if errors occur, but also to see when new faces are recognised, whether thumbnails are being generated correctly as well as when a new face cluster is ready to be named.</p><p><strong>Making Photos and Videos Private</strong></p><p>With PhotoPrism you can set several images or videos as private at once. You select the first image and then before clicking the last image press shift as you click and it will select that range. You can then click on the lock and those images or videos will be marked as private. Having the ability to select a range of images and apply changes, such as privacy is useful. I use privacy as an example but you could just as easily add a country, or keyword, or anything else.</p><p><strong>The Index Tab</strong></p><p>I realise that I should mention the index tab. Indexing runs automatically, as soon as it detects images in a directory or a mounted drive it will attempt to index those files which is both useful and likely to cause a mess. Luckily PhotoPrism comes with a “cleanup” tool to make clearing up orphan files and tidying the index easier.</p><p><strong>It’s Fast</strong></p><p>Despite indexing thousands of files, adding metadata, recognising colours, adding categories and labels, as well as generating thumbnails it’s fast. I can load images almost instantly when scrolling up and down. This is despite running on a Pi whilst it’s working hard. This is a great self-hosted alternative to Google Photos and iPhotos. Remember, before cloud storage was a default tools like Picasa existed, and these were great for organising photos. The difference is that now they’re cloud solutions where the cloud is your home Raspberry Pi rather than an app on your phone or laptop.</p><p><strong>User Roles</strong></p><p>When you use PhotoPrism for free you can have just one user. If you <a href="https://www.photoprism.app/editions#compare" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">pay 2 Euros per month</a> you can have “Super Admin, Admin, User, Viewer, Guest” accounts. This allows you to create individual users, to add friends and family.</p><p><strong>Cloud Option</strong></p><p>If you don’t desire to have your own private instance running at home you have a <a href="https://www.pikapods.com/login?redirect=%2Fpods" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">cloud based solution</a> that starts at 6.50 Euros per month but it’s unclear what the cost is for storage.</p><p><strong>And Finally</strong></p><p>Initially I thought that I would use Nextcloud for media asset management but when it failed to display video files as thumbnails and when I saw that I couldn’t easily get rid of orphan index entries I hesitated between Immich and PhotoPrism. What made me commit to PhotoPrism is that I saw that they had a tool to import from Google Takeout built in. Instead of spending hours or even days or weeks re-organising photos the software would do it for me.</p><p>Adobe Lightroom costs 99 CHF per year. Kyno by LessPain Software costs 150 Euros per year and CatDV costs several thousand CHF to purchase. If you know how to setup PhotoPrism you can save money, or upgrade the hard drive to a higher capacity once per year, to ensure less risk of drive failure due to age.</p><p><a href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/migrating-media-assets-from-google-photos-to-photoprism/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/migrating-media-assets-from-google-photos-to-photoprism/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/bottle-necks/" target="_blank">#bottleNecks</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/day-415/" target="_blank">#day415</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/google-photos/" target="_blank">#googlePhotos</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/google-takeout/" target="_blank">#googleTakeout</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/photoprism/" target="_blank">#photoprism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/workflow/" target="_blank">#workflow</a></p>
Martin 🇪🇺<p>Im Juli machte ich einen <a href="https://norden.social/tags/GoogleTakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTakeout</span></a>. Und gestern. Im Juli sind beide ZIPs zusammen 104GB groß. Das Takeout von gestern ist 32GB groß.<br>Ich hatte Fotos bei Google Fotos gelöscht. Dass das über 70GB waren, war mir nicht klar. 😯</p>
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