Storage in Server Stats will not count external libraries?
As I was using Synology Photos in the past and another docker app for managing the photos and videos. I decided to use external libraries, I successfully set the import path and verifed. I can see correct photo and video counts, but the stroage space not count. I have tried to upload two pictures, Immich only count the two I uploaded (1MB).
Is there any method to have Immich to count the real space usage for the external libraries? Thanks.
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Is there any plan for this in the near future release?
I'm not saying there is, but I don't think anyone is opposed, so who knows
Hopefully, this feature will be added in the next update. @Immich
Given the frequency of releases and noone is working on it yet, that seems unlikely
In fact, it is deliberately not included in the storage because an external library in any case takes up space on the server/computer on which Immich is running, so there is no reason for you to think that the external library would count because it really does not take up any space.
You could say it was even considered a "bug" that was "fixed"
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/6534
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/6556
To be fair I would like a counter that is visible just over at external libs @aviv 👀
You mean a button that shows the total storage space a user is using including external libs?
or a button just for the specific lib
Ahh I see, I think it might be a good idea for FR
From a quick search I found this:
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/13152
Maybe you should add the request in addition here ^
Although this indicates requests from #9380 which has been closed
I think this a good idea to provide a button in server stats tab, with this button could count include or exclude external libs. Especially for the user who used Synology Photos in the past and plan to try immich, no need to upload again. OR, count internal and external libs individually and list on this server stats page. @aviv
To get this you'd need to run an exhaustive (think 500k+assets) io on the entire directory periodically as immich has no control of what's in these folders and doesn't necessarily know when a change to them occurs. Does the number really matter?
Personally I'd rather not have a periodical io task that I can avoid
But we monitor changes... 👀
My understanding is the reason for support external library is to avoid re-upload for the users newly switch to Immich. In Immich already provide the periodic scanning function. I do not think number is really matter, but since there exist storage calculation and periodic scanning. What not consider to calculate the storage during periodic scanning in midnight?
If I decided to use Immich only in the future, I definitely hope to see real usage of storage usage, it could be not in the realtime, but should be more or less accurate instead of only count newly upload photos and videos.
I suppose that's fair. Files are periodically scanned. Guess I'm just worried about increasing IO as generally immich references the same file multiple times for different tasks as it is