What are you using for photo storage and organization?

Hey, I’m wondering what everyone’s solution is for self hosted “cloud” storage of photos? I’ve been running a PhotoPrism server on my Synology for a while but it’s missing some features I’d like to have. While we’ve set up auto-uploading from different phones to the web server, I haven’t found an easy way to share read-only access to the pictures or specific albums. There is an admin login, but no way (that I’ve found) to create multiple users with different permissions.

So SelfHosted lemmy, what’s your solve for photo storage, sorting, and sharing?

stephenc,

I just use a folder of photos and then use digiKam to manage them. But it’s just me, I don’t need to share photos with anyone else. I like digiKam but it doesn’t play great with concurrent users out of the box. I think there’s a way to use a shared database though.

Wats0ns,

Saw recently that Shadow, the cloud PC company, has now a next cloud based storage offer: shadow.tech

I’d be interested by any feedbacks if somebody gives it a try !

CCatMan,

I’ve never heard of this, but what happens if it shuts down? How is this really self hosting vs getting an generic we hosting service and storing files there ?

Wats0ns,

Oh my bad, didn’t see this was on self hosted. Then yeah, it’s a hosting service like any other one

CaptainBlagbird,
@CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world avatar

Piwigo looks nice.

I’m trying to get it to run (in docker), but I can’t get it to connect to my MariaDB

activator90,

I just use Samba for now. I don’t care much about viewing photos. also, I have an underpowered old server that overheats easily

imperator,
@imperator@sh.itjust.works avatar

I use samba and digikam

Trail,

Same but NFS over Btrfs.

Monkeyclock1234,

Prism is my go to …it’s allright but I am still looking for new options. Have heard good things about Immich so might look at that

TheInsane42,
@TheInsane42@lemmy.world avatar

Pretty simple here, directory with my phpto’s, which I renamed to show the subject, date and an id for that day. Simple script to show the images when on a website, manual viewing from disk when archived.

I pull them off the phone via a cable and adb pull command. All photo’s are read only for my wife. (And by default for all when on the website)

No need to use software when you can write some small scripts, devise an ordering system and run Linux. ;)

JStenoien,

No need to use software when you can write some small scripts, devise an ordering system and run Linux. consign yourself to not having any of the modern QoL features everyone enjoys ;)

FTFY

TheInsane42,
@TheInsane42@lemmy.world avatar

No need to use software when you can write some small scripts, devise an ordering system and run Linux. consign yourself to not having any of the modern QoL features being forced to buy/be locked into products everyone enjoys hates. ;)

Everything is a choice, for me, “one size fits somebody, hopefully, and the rest has to adapt” doesn’t work at all. I started with MSX, then Atari ST, used a PC 1 game, went via OS/2 (BBS) to Linux in '94 and stayed there after a clash with Windows 95 during an internship. My current employer gave me an iPhone to use and after running rooted Android and Cyanogenmod/Lineage since 2012 I hate it with a passion, to restricted for me.

Some will be totally happy to dump all their photo’s on photobucket, google photo’s,… it just doesn’t work for me, as for one, my photos come from DLSR, compacts, scanned analog photos and a few from the phone. I have 24y worth of photo’s on local disk (229G), I make almost no photos with the phone and when I do I usually want to put them online for own reference pretty quickly. For me, with almost no photo’s on the phone (max 10), this works like a charm. (and once I made a few scripts, it costs me less time then trying to get my photo’s back from all those apps)

I suspect we’re all a tad weary of companies offering ‘free’ storage for your data and then use it for other means or charge you when you want your data back. It’s an option that works, but requires a tad more knowledge and time to setup. That free storage feels more like ‘legal ransom ware’ then anything else. When your not paying, you’re the product being sold. (which doesn’t guarantee that when you are paying you’re not sold as well)

When you want something you either have to:

  1. find the perfect product
  2. adapt the product to make it perfect for you
  3. adapt yourself to make you perfect for the product
  4. create something yourself

The 1st is near impossible, 2nd costs time, sometimes to much, 3rd is most of the times a no-go here and that leaves 4. When you have the skills, 4 will become the option you use more and more. (Especially when you enjoy making your own solutions)

Showroom7561,

Synology Moments, which is their older version of their photo app. I still use the older version because it supports object recognition. I just wish it had a map view.

gadgetzombie,

Fwiw I read that object recognition is coming back with 7.2

There’s a DSM docker that enables the use of Synology Photos without having to buy a Diskstation as well if others are scrolling through this

Showroom7561,

There’s a DSM docker that enables the use of Synology Photos without having to buy a Diskstation as well if others are scrolling through this

Woah! I’ll need to check that out!

damnthefilibuster,

I’m using the PhotoSync app to backup to Dropbox and to my local HDD from multiple phones and tablets. Seems to work like a charm. Better than the shitty Dropbox iOS photos backup for sure.

Verbose2812,

immich!

Brochetudo,

Android’s Gallery application

minishoemaze,

I’m a recent Immich adopter, but one thing that seems to be missing compared to Google photos is the ability to manually backup by picking and choosing individual photos. Am I missing something or can you only do “all or nothing” with folder backups?

warmaster,

I’m planning my homelab, and from the research I’ve done, Immich is the best but not ready for production and it can’t use an already existing photo library. NextCloud memories is the next best alternative, and supports already existing libraries.

MangoPenguin,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Immich can use existing libraries, either by importing (copying) existing files, or just by adding an existing folder of files in place.

warmaster,

Importing is another thing. But using an existing folder is exactly what I want. Is this feature new ?

MangoPenguin, (edited )
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I think it’s pretty new, in the last month or so. It’s currently something you have to run manually with the CLI to do an import, but they should eventually have it added into the web interface and run automatically.

immich.app/docs/features/bulk-upload#importing-ex…

The important thing is the –import flag which adds files without copying them.

Personally I run the CLI command inside the immich-server container, here’s the full command to make life easier since this took me a bit to figure out, make sure the directory is mounted into both the immich-server and immich-microservices containers. You can mount it as :ro if you want (I did) to make sure Immich can only read the files and not change them.

immich upload --key apikeygoeshere --server http://localhost:3001 --recursive /some/path/to/existing/photos --import

warmaster,

Amazing ! Thanks for sharing!

freeman,

A synology NAS and dsphoto. Its a mess.

I have considered photprism, never set it up though (other things got in the way).

gladoz,

There is also Synology photos and I like it but see a lot of people recommending immich, someone that has used both know if there is notable difference or benefits?

archy,

I am migrating from Syno Photos, which had been the greatest solution I had found, now to Immich, which is so polished and sharing is 10x easier than in Syno. The only gripe to Syno Photos is their implementation of Public/Personal space which is confusing and if you want to share something you have to store duplicate photos in those spaces. I used conditional albums to share certain faces with the partner and it has been OK.

Now it’s 100% Immich for me:

  • Clean, intuitive interface
  • Easy sharing
  • Very good face detection, better than Google (I compared the same pics I uploaded to both)
  • Easy transition for a Google Photos user
  • FOSS, you’re in full control over the deployment
  • Machine learning container to tag pictures
  • CLI interface to mass upload

Both galleries claim motion photos support, but for me neither actually works. Immich claims iPhone’s Live Photos, which I don’t care for, but Syno Photos say that in version DSM7 support Android Motion Pics, that I could not confirm.

freeman,

I need to check out immich it sounds like.

I looked at photoprism. DIdnt really excite me but I have about 20k unsorted photos because of the way dsphoto does uploads and I dont have time to sort them.

I dont even really care about folder structure as much as geo data/time date/event style sorting.

traches,

I’m currently on photoprism like you, but I am looking to switch to immich.

I solved the sharing problem by having a family-only instance locally (accessible via tailscale), connected via WebDAV to a public instance on a cheap VPS (which I also use for other things). We have to share twice, but I don’t have any holes in my firewall. Currently I don’t believe immich can do something like this, but I’d love to be proven wrong

umbraroze,
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I have a Zyxel NAS server that just offers a SMB share. I'm just dumping my photos there under YYYY/MM/DD scheme, and converting all of my Nikon NEF files to DNG. (For importing photos to the NAS and generating backups, I have a PowerShell script and a PowerAutomate action. Also mild usage of Dropbox to transfer files from my cellphone.)

For actual management of photos, I use ACDSee Photo Studio Professional, and it just writes all tag information to the files themselves, so I can basically use any other software for photo management. For actual photo editing, I use DXO PhotoLab and Affinity Photo most of the time.

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