When many missing sidecars are detected, should immich hint to the user that they should extrat all tgz files before continuing?

[tylers-username]

First off, thank you for creating this tool – it’s been incredibly useful.

As someone new to Google Takeout, I initially assumed that each part of the photos dump (e.g., Takeout 001, 002, etc.) was self-contained, meaning images and their sidecars would be together in each part. To conserve drive space, I extracted and imported each part sequentially (001, then 002, and so on).

This got me thinking: should immich-go operate under the assumption that users might not be familiar with how Takeout splits data? Would it make sense to guide users toward extracting all parts into the same location before starting the import?

Curious to hear others’ thoughts on this.

[simulot]

Thank you for your nice comment.

Details are on the main page of the project:
https://github.com/simulot/immich-go?tab=readme-ov-file#google-photos-best-practices

Feel free to improve the text

[tylers-username]

Oh, thanks for this. Apologies for the noise. Will consider if there are any improvements to contribute.

[simulot]

English isn't my native language, and I'm technical person. Feel free to improve the documentation for clarity or grammar.