I did something stupid with immich

[MatsuNoKi]

Hi!
first off, I have a backup.

second. I didn't know about the whole migration thing when I decided to update immich today. idk how I missed everything, but I followed some guides but none of them worked (bc the step to "turn off old file systems" didn't exist for me, and for some reason, I couldn't change the file storage location)

so I tried something stupid.
I made a backup (a full one, including all the encrypted images) and then deleted immich and re-installed it.

after learning that this didn't work, I realized I could not downgrade.
I went to the immich discord server and they gave me a guide on how to restore from a backup, but annoyingly, this guide only exists for docker.
anyone know how to guide me through this? and please enplane every step, pretend I'm 5.

if this is impossible for some reason and you know a different way I can save my data from the infinite obscurity of encryption, I would really appreciate knowing how to fix it.

Edited January 23 by MatsuNoKi

[Mobius]

to the best of my knowledge immich does not encrypt photos. Have you encrypted them another way?
If you would like i can try to set up a support meeting with you where we install a fresh installation of immich and help you reprocess all the media you had in your previous immich installation

[MatsuNoKi]

yes please.
sorry for the late reply, I expected to get an email for a reply.

I would very much like getting help with this, I found an article that seems to solve the issue I'm working with, but I'm in way over my head and too scared to start.

https://michaelrichter.online/immich-disaster-recover-guide-for-truenas-scale/