Pretty technical person here who via his own foolish moves destroyed his Apple Photos library. The good news is that I was able to create a good library (1/3 of my photos) using my phone and some old google takeout downloads. I have used all sorts of on line tools, osxphotos and other terminal tools, etc to try and retrieve some metadata into my entire library that is now dated March of 2026. The good news is that I have all the photos the bad news is that it is a large library 60K. I tried bringing everything into immich but was not able to improve the bad library. Gemini has suggested using Excire? At this point I think I need an AI tool that can look at my good library and then attempt to make sense of my library that is stripped of all metadata. Anyone have any other suggestions?
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u/DTSA2428 — 17 days ago