So, I’m selfhosting immich, the issue is we tend to take a lot of pictures of the same scene/thing to later pick the best, and well, we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates but not quite.
Some duplicate finding programs put those images at 95% or more similarity.

I’m wondering if there’s any way, probably at file system level, for the same images to be compressed together.
Maybe deduplication?
Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?

  • @[email protected]English
    4•4 months ago

    Storage is cheap. You suggest combining the images and storing the difference.

    You can’t separate the images anymore. You have to store them in a container such that you have one common base image. You can then later on decide which image to look at.

    You could also take a short video and only display one image.

    Avif uses a video compression algorithm, meaning it’s basically one frame of a video.

    Btw, I wouldn’t care about your problem. Storage is cheap. Try saving 10 4k videos and you’ll laugh about your image library