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brett

Large import issue

I'm attempting to import a large quantity of images into a new immich instance (docker on unraid) and I'm running into issues. From what I can tell, the only mechanism to bulk import is via HTTP API (no option to specify a directory for it to scan/import, right?). I've had some success with running the API call from within the container itself or outside of the container using a docker run command, accessing immich through nginx. However, with a large quantity of photos this eventually causes the docker service and all other images to crash and I haven't figured out why. I've read it may be better accessing API directly without nginx, but doing this I'm getting "error asset" HTTP 400 errors, file does not exist messages. Is there a better way to bulk import than the upload API? Could anyone provide clues on the above errors (happy to post the entire log somewhere). Thanks!
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