[kwlug-disc] Nextcloud, ownCloud, ...etc

[Colin Mackay]

Another updoot for Immich.  I found the photo/video upload for Nextcloud a
little lacking, the Android App often failed in its sync tasks, or missed
files, and there was no way to manually 'sync all now', you just had to
trust (hope) that it was running.

Immich has been rock solid, and if you wander into the Android app, you can
tell it to run the Sync manually if issues occur.

I currently use both, however.  Nextcloud is strictly for file sync between
laptops, desktops and phones.  Immich is just for my photos/videos, and
it's shared via reverse proxy, (and some other security measures), so I can
share Albums out to friends on the interwebs.

It was also easier to import all the photos from the year 2000 onwards,
from all the varied digital cameras I've owned and include those pictures
in my local users (family) accounts.  This way, when we go somewhere, and
return with a bunch of photos, I just upload them and everyone can see them
in their timeline.

Currently running Immich as an App in TrueNAS Scale 25.x.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM Ron <ron at bclug.ca> wrote:

> Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote on 2025-10-26 17:00:
>
> > I see no need to have these files in nextcloud.
>
> The idea being, single storage location, immich for viewing, NextCloud
> for sharing.
>
> Maybe immich supports sharing links?
>
> NC has quite a robust sharing feature already.
>
>
> > If disaster strikes and the immich app is unusable, it stored all my
> > photos in date-stamped directories with original filenames:
> >
> > library/cirwin/2025/2025-10-26/PXL_20251026_193329833.MP.jpg
>
> Auto-upload can place images into YYYY or YYYY/MM folders, but I don't
> think that happens with bulk uploads from ~/Pictures or whichever. Not
> sure, never used the desktop sync.
>
> So, that's a nice feature for immich - saves programmatically moving
> things around, for sure.
>
>
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