Question: report shows way less images uploaded than scanned

[joselsegura]

Hi immich-go team!

I discovered you a few days ago and I was using your software to upload my Google Photos backup to my Immich instance. I downloaded 3 Google Takeout tgz archives from Takeout service and uncompressed them as the README and instructions say in order to run immich-go over them.

I put all the 3 directories altogether inside the same directory and run immich-go -server https://XXXXXXXXX -key ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ upload -create-albums -google-photos ..

After a while, the upload was finished and the report was shown:

Input analysis:
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scanned image file                      :   48682
scanned video file                      :    1835
scanned sidecar file                    :   48483
discarded file                          :       0
unsupported file                        :     105
file duplicated in the input            :    4168
associated metadata file                :   25771
missing associated metadata file        :   24746

Uploading:
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uploaded                                :   20749
upload error                            :       2
file not selected                       :       4
server's asset upgraded with the input  :       0
server has same asset                   :     844
server has a better asset               :       2

As you can see, it scanned more than 50k photos+videos, but the report says that "only" ~21k were uploaded to my server. Did I something wrong on my run? Should I try to repeat the execution and expect something different or is it expected?

[simulot]

tgz The direct support of the TGZ format imposes the read and then decompress the archive twice.... Better to process the result of the decompression

scanned more than 50k photos+video but only ~21k were uploaded

First, the google takeout is full of duplicates... That explains a part.

But also Immich-go is confused by the Iphone file names that create duplicates. IMG_1234.HEIC appears several times in the archive... and sometime confused with IMG_1234.JPG and IMG_1234_MP4....

I'm working on the issue.

You can help by providing logs and debug files. For more privacy, you can sent them via discord @simulot

immich-go -server https://XXXXXXXXX -key ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ upload -debug-counters -create-albums -google-photos 

Stay tuned

[joselsegura]

Hi!

I didn't use the direct tgz support, I decompressed the files and run immich-go over the decompressed directory.

I was doing some numbers using fdupes to find the duplicates and it makes sense. I don't have any iPhone, so I don't have the HEIC files problem at al.

[simulot]

I'm rewriting the google photo import. I can work on your logs if you agree.

[joselsegura]

Sure, I don't have any problem sharing my logs with you. They are huge as I have a ton of pics there...

[simulot]

You also can share the list of your files, not the content. Run following command

for f in *.zip; do echo "$f: "; unzip -l $f; done >list.lst

[cocoands]

@simulot Let me know if you need another list of file names. I had a very similar experience on v 0.20.1.

Input analysis:
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scanned image file                      :    2832
scanned video file                      :      89
scanned sidecar file                    :     769
discarded file                          :       0
unsupported file                        :       0
file duplicated in the input            :       0
associated metadata file                :       7
missing associated metadata file        :    2914

Uploading:
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uploaded                                :       4
upload error                            :       0
file not selected                       :       0
server's asset upgraded with the input  :       0
server has same asset                   :       3
server has a better asset               :       0

[simulot]

The report shows 2914 photos not associated with a Json file.

This is not usual. Those files are ignored.

There are 2 main causes:

1. You have processed only one part of the takeout. Use takeout-*.zip.
2. These JSON files are missing from the takeout. Ask for another takeout.

The next version of immich-go will give those advices.

[cocoands]

You are absolutely right. Complete user error. I needed to pay closer attention to the Google Photos advice in the README. takeout-*.zip. Thanks for the quick response and thank you for building this tool!