reimmich/README.md

ReImmich

i had a very funny edge case, after a disaster:

• the volume containing my immich's library (i.e. the photos) was intact
• the volume and any replicas (all 6 across 2 servers!!!) of the database was corrupted

after some painful manual re-importing of the images themselves through immich-go, the main thing i was still missing were albums

i discovered that the immich mobile app lets you export its sqlite db, which just happens to contain a cached copy of all albums and their contents

this funny script takes that sqlite db and restores the albums from it as best it can

how to

1. get an immich api key (i just used an all perms one; asset.read, album.create, album.update should suffice)
2. export the sqlite db from the mobile app (settings -> sync status -> export database)
3. put the sqlite db somewhere under this directory (priv/ is a good place)
4. create config/config.exs with the things you just gathered:

import Config

config :reimmich,
  db: "priv/immich_export_XXXXXXXXXXXX.sqlite",
  url: "https://immich.example.com",
  api_key: "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"

5. run mix run -e 'Reimmich.match' and pray