Comment by jmathai
3 hours ago
There's plenty of tutorials but you can request a Google Takeout of your photos and then point immich-go at it. I can confirm that this works really well.
https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1 https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
The problem with google takeout is that it generates hundred of files to download as ZIP. I tried it in my own collection (800GB).
Agree - it's annoying. rclone to the rescue. Requires choosing Google Drive as the destination and then downloading with rclone to your computer. It's the closest to sane I've found.
https://metadatafixer.com/learn/how-to-download-google-takeo...
Claude made a PHP script for me that did API to Google Photos and pulls them all to my archive location.
I struggled with Immich, I didn't like the rclone option. I'm intending to go back to Immich but my first priority was to get the stuff out of Google. That's done, so with all my free time (ha!) I can get the family Immich going.