Immich•3y ago

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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Alex Tran•6/5/23, 3:23 PM

The

profile

profile

only appear when you update your account profile picture

Alex Tran•6/5/23, 3:24 PM

We should note that in the documentation

nxln9OP•6/5/23, 3:25 PM

Ok, cool. 1 other question, my

library

library

folder appears to have the 20175578 guid in it as well, how does that work? Did I somehow duplicate it on accident?

nxln9OP•6/5/23, 3:25 PM

[ben@dell8040 immich]$ ls
20175570-5043-408c-8e4f-f052cc212ae9  encoded-video  library  upload
[ben@dell8040 immich]$ ls 20175570-5043-408c-8e4f-f052cc212ae9/
1899  2003  2004  2005    2006  2007  2008  2009    2010  2011  2012  2013    2014  2015  2016  2017    2018  2019  2020  2021    2022  2023  encoded-video  original
[ben@dell8040 immich]$ ls library/20175570-5043-408c-8e4f-f052cc212ae9/
2003  2005  2006  2007    2008  2009  2011  2012    2013  2014  2017  2018    2020  2021  2022  2023

[ben@dell8040 immich]$ ls
20175570-5043-408c-8e4f-f052cc212ae9  encoded-video  library  upload
[ben@dell8040 immich]$ ls 20175570-5043-408c-8e4f-f052cc212ae9/
1899  2003  2004  2005    2006  2007  2008  2009    2010  2011  2012  2013    2014  2015  2016  2017    2018  2019  2020  2021    2022  2023  encoded-video  original
[ben@dell8040 immich]$ ls library/20175570-5043-408c-8e4f-f052cc212ae9/
2003  2005  2006  2007    2008  2009  2011  2012    2013  2014  2017  2018    2020  2021  2022  2023

Alex Tran•6/5/23, 3:28 PM

There were changes to the folder structure over some releases to make the structure easier to understand. The original was

userId/your-templateuserId/your-template
Then we moved to
library/userId/your-templatelibrary/userId/your-template
And the most recent changes to the structure was adding a mechanism to replace the
```
userId
```
```
userId
```
with a configurable storageTemplatestorageTemplate so that it is human readable

nxln9OP•6/5/23, 3:30 PM

so realistically, everything in imich/2017... is a duplicate/unused as it was migrated to immich/library/2017... ?

nxln9OP•6/5/23, 3:32 PM

my current .env specifies UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/internal/photos/immichUPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/internal/photos/immich . Upon the app uploading images to the server, they are immediately placed into the appropriate library/2017 location then?

nxln9OP•6/5/23, 3:34 PM

I think I got enough out of that (I'll move this all somewhere else to start again) to understand. Thanks.

Nnxln9 my current .env specifies `UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/internal/photos/immich` . Upon ...

Alex Tran•6/5/23, 3:35 PM

yes if the file is taken from 2017

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