Immich not scanning photos
hey all, looking for an easy way to store my baby photos so my wife and I can access / upload from camera on mobile
i have immich running on unraid, need to set up reverse proxy for it, i am running it locally for now, it doesnt seem to want to scan subfolders for photos. Any ideas?
i have a share called family, which has /photos and /videos folder.
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what is the path you set for the user in the administration page?
you mean this ?
if i have photos and videos in \family/library/photos and \family/library/videos respectively
where should i point /photos and /import ?
i want to organised subfolders etc in the above 2 folders and would like immich to pick them up for browsing
/photos is for your default library (where you upload assets from your phone), /import is the assets already present on your filesystem
Once you setup Immich, you need to set /import for your external pathit doesnt let me set up an ext path
i get a circle with a cross
Did you set an external path for your user ?
Admin > Users > Edit > External path > set
/import/<your_user>
Then your user should have a checkmark for Can importokay. and my admin user should just be
/import ?
ive not create a user yet, just adminYep it's good
If you have multiple users with their assets on your system you should set
/import/user-1
But if you're alone it's good
*to use external librariesokay, can you help me figure out best way to arrange this... so if /photos/ is where mobile app will upload photos (a library folder) and /import is where my existing library is
/family/library/photos & videos
would i just then need to periodically move files manually from family/library to corresponding folders depending on whether its video or photo ?For the external libraries you manage your assets as you like
there will be 2 of us. me and wife....so hers i will set /import/username ?
If she has assets already on your server and wants to access it with Immich, yes
Unless you want to share your library with her
i do
i basically want the photos she takes and the photos i take uploaded to the same library
shared library of photos of our babies
problem atm is that its all on HDD...would be good if we good look at them whilst away from home
There's the partner sharing feature for this use case
Partner Sharing | Immich
Immich allows you to share your library with other users. They can then view your library and download the assets.
cool, so no need to create a separate user.
No, you need to create a new user for her
You can have one user, but it's not ideal : if she likes, delete, rename a person, it will affect you too
ok. so /import is pointed to /family/ < contains 2 subfolders - photos and videos
i created an external library, but still doesnt pick up
or do i need to put the full path
/import/photos
or /photos
its fine - she will be managing / organising it anywayNo the path should be /import
does "default library" point to
/photos/ ?
this doesnt pick up anything in my family share either e.g
/family/photos or /family/videos
/import points to /familyThe default library point to
/photos, It's where thumbnails and all your assets uploaded from the browser and your phone are stored. /import is the external library, where your assets already exists and Immich only read the original files
Can you check if your files are in /import from the unraid console with docker exec -it Immich ls /import/photos would be good to keep on a cache drive, but then id have to move files across to the HDD from cache
Be careful, Immich re-encode videos and it can fill up your disk really quickly
ah. so the videos i upload to immich wont be kept raw?
hmm,
Yes they are
root@Tower:~# docker exec -it immich ls /import
root@Tower:~# But your videos codecs can be incompatible with some devices
🤔
Are you sure you mounted your volumes correctly?
from your unraid console
ls /mnt/user/family ?yep,
that takes meinto the folder
What are immich logs ?
sorted.
works
It imported all your files ?
yep, now to setup reverse proxy swag conf
Niceeee
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this should work
It shouldn't be very different from your other setups
Just one note : if you add other users, don't forget to edit
/import/<your_user> external path or they could access all assets in /import https://documentation.immich.app/docs/features/libraries#security-considerationsLibraries | Immich
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ok thanks