M atheist (not cut) but if you need Christian reason then

Galatians 5:2

Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

https://biblehub.com/galatians/5-2.htm

I would be wondering if the grandpa is really a grandpa, maybe he should provide paternity test first.

With out most respect - is there any chance that you are one of the people who is so hang up on being nice that they never think about other people?

https://youtu.be/g7RAPS8mE94

I am only a solo user that tried similar recovery.

There are several jobs in the admin section, one of them is “migrate the storage template” or something like this. I think that thing might do what you want. I would check that it is set properly depending on what you were using previously and rerun in. https://immich.app/docs/administration/storage-template/

I also wanted to mention that normally Immich dumps its own db into a file backup file somewhere. I forgot where. Check the database dump backup cron job in the settings.

I do. On my imaginary scale around 4 out of 10. So far the mess looks to me like it was voted in.