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Organising your own photos and videos in Immich: external libraries, XMP sidecars, duplicates…
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What this guide covers
Documents what Immich's official docs say about external libraries, import paths and exclusions, listed media formats, XMP sidecars, tags and duplicate review, for people organising their own photo and video archives. It is a reading of repository files only; nothing was installed or run.
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Organising your own photos and videos in Immich: external libraries, XMP sidecars, duplicates and tags
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Documents what Immich's official docs say about external libraries, import paths and exclusions, listed media formats, XMP sidecars, tags and duplicate review, for people organising their own photo and video archives. It is a reading of repository files only; nothing was installed or run.
Useful starting points
- With a read-only mount, the docs warn that metadata edits fail silently, so confirm write access before relying on XMP write-back.
- The docs say metadata added in Immich to an external asset is stored only in Immich and is lost on rescan if the file is moved.
- A sidecar must share the media file's base name; when both name styles exist, the double-extension one is used.
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