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I've been running Immich for about 6 months now, and it's smooth and stable.

I've synced my camera roll to it and loving it.
Next step is to move the ~150gb of media on Google-Photos over.
How do I best do that?

I also have some other issues I'd like to address before or after the migration:

  1. I have a bunch of crap mixed into my Google photos, old WhatsApp images from meme groups I used to be in etc.
  2. Thousands of photos of Ex girlfriends mixed in (not exactly sure what to do about these)

Is there a way to siff through these efficiently and keep what I want? I have ~20k photos some dating back to 2006 so it feels like a mountain to climb.

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for whatsapp I think the files are prefixed with "wa" or something and actually you could check the default filename formatting of real pictures and filter out all others (to put in a different location)

from this you could also check the size/ratio: pictures you took are usually not scared shaped, and definitely not in a gif format

filtering those out might already reduce the manual work

(for the last thing, IMO those photos are still part of your life, maybe put them aside but don't delete things you could regret later, but that's really up to you and your feelings)