Upload Photos to Immich with existing folder structure

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Hi everyone,

I’m pretty new to Linux, self‑hosting and Immich, and I’ve been stuck for half a day trying to get my existing photo collection into Immich. Here’s what I’ve done so far and where I’m stuck.

What I have already:

  1. On my PC I have a folder hierarchy like this:

Photos/ ├─ 2025/ │ ├─ trip1/ │ ├─ trip2/ │ └─ … ├─ 2024/ │ ├─ trip1/ │ └─ … └─ …

  1. Using Samba I copied the whole Photos directory to my Raspberry Pi 5 under my home folder: /home/umbrel/Photos

  2. Managed to finally SSH to my Pi5 with UmbrelOS.

(The copy itself worked fine.)

What I want to achieve

a) How can I import the files from /home/umbrel/Photos to Immich via the Immich web surface?

b) Automate the import – I found a community tool called immich-go (https://github.com/simulot/immich-go) that claims to import folders via the Immich API. Has anyone used it? How would I set it up on my Pi with umbrel OS?

Any step‑by‑step guidance for a non‑techie would be hugely appreciated – even just pointing out the right commands or config changes would help a lot.

Thanks in advance! :folded_hands:

Joe