Short question: Is there a way to print a list after an upload through the browser of what files were ignored as duplicates and possibly what file they were deemed a duplicate of?
Background: I’m new to Immich. I have a hard drive full of photos that I want to pull into my library. I’ve always been pretty meticulous about pulling pics off my phone and storing them on this drive. I create a new folder when I pull them and I dump everything currently on the phone into the folder. I’m usually really good about deleting the pics off the phone at this point. I don’t have a database to manage it or anything, so it’s possible there are duplicates between the folders, but I suspect the numbers to be low. I use Google photos too to back up the phone, but I do this with a lower resolution to save space. So, I consider the hard drive pictures to be the originals and what I want in Immich.
I’ve been uploading my photos in batches (1 folder at a time). I’m uploading through the browser from the localhost and during the upload Immich is saying sometimes as many as half the files in a folder are duplicates. I get the pop-up toast list of duplicate warnings in the browser, but this isn’t useful for more than a handful of duplicates. I’m getting notices that hundreds or even thousands of pics were ignored. I can’t find a log anywhere. I have looked at the duplicate tool in utilities, but this seems to be trying to use ML to detect similarities in the photos after they were uploaded. There are only 5 photos in there to review.
During the upload when it says duplicate detected I think there is an option not to import those. If you click itnore duplicate then it probably did not add those. Any reason you don’t use Immich to back up your phone? The app is great
I like the app and immich generally so far and plan to use the app as the main way of importing going forward, but I’m still dealing with importing the ~2 TB of photos/videos I’ve pulled off of old phones for the past decade or so. I feel like I looked at the ignore duplicates option earlier, but it didn’t result in a difference during the import phase. It was more about detecting pics containing similar content via ML.
I did however, find immich-go as a superior way of importing. A separate utility you have to install, but I can do it via command line, it has an option to dry run imports to see how many duplicates there will be and best of all, it creates logs that let me see exactly what was ignored during upload. On the limited runs I’ve done with it so far, it had more to do with corrupted files. Not a fun find, but helpful in terms of tracking what I’m missing.