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Ideas for improvement

Open anduz opened this issue 7 months ago • 2 comments

Hi,

I've played around with the various upload options and found some things that I would change:

  1. from-google-photos: a) I think it would be nice to be able to specify a directory as well, so it would be possible to delete some unneeded photos before upload, without the need to zip them again. b) It doesn't seem to read the description from the metadata.json (i renamed the file and the .json to something different than 20250408_201540.mp4 and it worked?!)

  2. from-folder a) could do the job of point 1.a) but it doesn't seem to read the metadata.json correctly (the date and time for a video are set, but description is missing) b) --folder-as-album=FOLDER creates a folder even for the specified parent folder and contained files, which it should not do in my opinion.

What do you think about these?

Best regards

Andy

anduz avatar Jul 31 '25 20:07 anduz

Hi,

from-google-photos: a) I think it would be nice to be able to specify a directory as well, so it would be possible to delete some unneeded photos before >upload, without the need to zip them again.

Have you tried? This was the initial implementation of immich-go. The direct process of Zip files has been added later

b) It doesn't seem to read the description from the metadata.json (i renamed the file and the .json to something different than >20250408_201540.mp4 and it worked?!)

I need more information. You can run immich-go with --log-level=DEBUG and share the log.

from-folder a) could do the job of point 1.a) but it doesn't seem to read the metadata.json correctly (the date and time for a video are set, but >description is missing)

Yes, expected to work on a regular folder, with nothing from google there.

b) --folder-as-album=FOLDER creates a folder even for the specified parent folder and contained files, which it should not do in my opinion.

It's difficult to fit everyone needs...

simulot avatar Sep 07 '25 10:09 simulot

Oh, I missed your answer. Great, a) works just specifying the directory b) tried again, seems to work now, may it was because I used the same file for testing (but I always deleted it and emptied recycle bin)

It's difficult to fit everyone needs...

That's for sure! Thank you very much.

anduz avatar Oct 13 '25 21:10 anduz