You could try opening the library with PowerPhotos, a commercial app that can manage multiple Photos libraries, to see if it can read it. You could also try my free open source command line tool, osxphotos. Install it then run this command in the Terminal: osxphotos info --library /path/to/the/library This should print out a list of information about the library: number of photos, number of albums, keywords in... Source: 7 months ago

On a Mac you could also use something like Power Photos to manage multiple libraries and keep the videos on a local-only (no iCloud sync) library. Source: about 1 year ago

If you don't want to mess with the command line, there's a third part PowerPhotos app that might help but I'm not very familiar with it. Source: over 1 year ago

Apertue was built from Photos but given the interface of Final Cut Pro. Apple dropped Aperture and rebuilt Photos to include features from Aperture such as Metadata, Folders, Keyword Management, Edit Tools, and Raw photos. Typical to Apple, Photos has slowly improved over time. Photos now has Duplicate finding and merge, so I no longer need to use PowerPhotos. Source: over 1 year ago

PowerPhotos will let you analyze Photo databases to see what are the keywords that were added by the user as well as review many other details of metadata. I’ve used PowerPhotos to mange Photos databases of several terabytes that required a NAS. Source: almost 3 years ago

Have you tried using the Files app for image/file transfers? You can add Samba (and other) shares in there by tapping the '...' in the upper-right corner, hitting 'Connect to Server', then inputting your local server's address and connecting. I use this not just for photos, but for transferring various files and docs to/from my phone/home server. You mentioned not wanting to mass-select 2000+ photos. If the photos... - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

Https://immich.app/ has built in auto-detection and tagging. I am surprised by the over-engineered comment. Object auto-detection is kind of an advanced feature and I would expect a lot of extra infra required for it. Immich hides it because they just publish docker containers for you but I imagine it would feel more complex if you were to look at the internals. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

I setup Immich in a few minutes with an old PC running FreeNAS: https://immich.app/ Their Android/iOS Flutter app needs some polishing, but overall it's very usable and very similar to Google Photos. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

It really is hard to leave Gmail when all of your data has been conveniently stored therein. This is one of Google's retention strategies and it is indeed brilliant. That said, there's a vast number of self-hosted alternatives like Stalwart Mail (email) [1], Immich (images) [2], NextCloud (Google Docs) [3], etc. [1] https://stalwa.rt [2] https://immich.app [3] https://nextcloud.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Last year we added CLIP-based image search to https://immich.app/ and even though I have a pretty good understanding of how it works, it still blows my mind damn near every day. It's the closest thing to magic I've ever seen. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago