Help understanding how to "start over" due to duplicate images
I have an issue where I was testing out this sweet app and I have a ton of duplicate images. I plan on running my existing photo dump (which is messy with duplicates) through DigiKam to identify and remove duplicate images.
My question comes from the documentation, specifically the folders outlined at https://immich.app/docs/administration/backup-and-restore#filesystem don't seem to lineup with my filesystem (or I don't understand it). I don't sem to have a /profile for example
My phone and my wife's phone have uploaded unique images to immich, and we have both switched phones since I have been testing this app, so I don't want to lose those unique images that I currently only have stored in immich. I'm trying to figure out which of these folders has the original images uploaded from our phones?
Thanks!
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profile only appear when you update your account profile picture
We should note that in the documentationOk, cool. 1 other question, my
library folder appears to have the 20175578 guid in it as well, how does that work? Did I somehow duplicate it on accident?
There were changes to the folder structure over some releases to make the structure easier to understand. The original was
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userId/your-template
Then we moved to
- library/userId/your-template
And the most recent changes to the structure was adding a mechanism to replace the userId with a configurable storageTemplate so that it is human readableso realistically, everything in imich/2017... is a duplicate/unused as it was migrated to immich/library/2017... ?
my current .env specifies
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/internal/photos/immich . Upon the app uploading images to the server, they are immediately placed into the appropriate library/2017 location then?
I think I got enough out of that (I'll move this all somewhere else to start again) to understand. Thanks.yes if the file is taken from 2017