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Note for Americans: here WhatsApp is the de facto communication standard. Literally nobody uses SMS/iMessage/Facebook messenger/signal. And carriers still charge 2 euro for a MMS which completely kills iMessage/RCS (if accidentally send MMS, it's expensive)

I switched phones and instead of copying manually /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp I used the new feature of pairing via qr code.

Besides that's a not very well designed feature (you need to start transfer on the old phone before logging in the new phone) because they really want to store unencrypted backups on Google drive, the transfer completed in a short time.

Maybe too fast, I was expecting at least one hour to transfer the 5000 photos 10gb, instead it completed in 20 seconds.

So I told myself, ok photos not transferred, I'll just do that manually and directly put them in the photo archive on my PC rather than keep them mixed with all the "happy holidays" trash.

I browse the old phone to /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp and... It's empty. Wiped clean after the "successful" transfer process!

Luckily I had set syncthing (the fork on fdroid, the one on play store doesn't have access to whole storage) to have a full overnight backup! On my PC I still had all the photos, almost deleted too as I noticed that I didn't set the "trash can" option

Conclusion: go to download syncthing fork from fdroid and have a safety net from mistakes like this

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you self host, or want to try it out, Immich is amazing. It feels very much like Google Photos, but you can run it completely locally. Great integration with desktop and mobile, both Android, and iOS.

I'm not affiliated at all with the project.

[–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's been my plan to move off of Google photos. Decided on Immich a few months ago. Now if only I had some more of that free time to set it up.

[–] Elkenders@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a server and docker running? I just set up immich and it was pretty easy.

[–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I have several docker servers, but for Immich I want a dedicated VM. Regardless the problem isn't going to be setting it up, that should be easy. But for something as important as this, I am going to pore over every possible architectural design decision from the storage tier to the HA and DR strategy. I don't want to start migrating to it then realize I wanted to do something differently and have to migrate again.

If it's replacing Google Photos for my family, I expect the same level of resiliency and data protection standards. Or at least as close as I can reasonably get.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

Yunohost takes A LOT of the pain out of setting up a server and they recently added Immich.