TrueNAS External uploads folder permission issue
Hello, I had immich working perfectly, until I remembered the android app's photo upload feature.
I am using an external photo library, and permissions working great there!
I don't want images to be uploaded to the pool I left as default for immich (which is located on a 128GB SSD) so I tried adding a folder "uploads" in my image storage pool, then adding the upload_location environment variable or whatever it is, but it still uploaded to the old spot.
I gave up trying to modify it, and reinstalled immich and this time set the upload to my TrueNAS host path "uploads", but now it won't boot because of a pretty generic permissions error: "Failed to read upload/upload/.immich: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'upload/upload/.immich'"
I set up my "uploads" folder the exact same as my regular external library, but it didn't work. Also tried making owner root, with 777 perms, also tried owner apps with 777, no dice.
Any help or direction is appreciated.
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This isn’t a permissions issue. It’s missing a file that it knows was supposed to be in the upload folder
You should probably move the folder contents to the new location
If this is the first time it booted, am I supposed to manually create the .immich file?
Did you reset the database folder..?
This is a fresh install of immich, so yes
You said you had immich working perfectly. So what did you do to make it fresh?
I uninstalled the truenas app, deleting all data, and reinstalled the truenas app
(not sure if you are familiar with truenas or not)
I am very familiar with truenas, and linux, but barely familiar with docker
No but if it’s missing the file it’s likely you didn’t delete all the old files properly
It wouldn’t cause that error unless the database knows it was started successfully before
I think the first case "creating an initial hidden file (.immich) in each folder" is what is causing the crash
because I tried crating the file manually, same ownership as parent folder with 777 permissions, and it still did not work
That error looks different
let me try again, i'll post the same log
what service is preferred for uploading logs here? sorry if its in faq or something
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2025-01-15 01:15:55.000630+00:00Initializing Immich v1.124.22025-01...
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log is probably made a bit weird from truenas, but i am unsure how to access docker image logs, i think that does good enough job displaying the error
it’s what I said. It made the file and now it’s missing
The database is somehow persisting
Alright sure, let me give it another go removing it
Maybe I re-installed before it could finish deleting everything, I did have like 80,000 images in there haha
(i didn't delete that many images, but i'm assuming the cache and whatever the heck else probably takes up a good chunk of space)
You can post the database logs from first start. It should initialize the DB
from a regular terminal, how would i get those from docker?
apologies, i've just never used docker outside of truenas and truenas tries to hide system stuff to make things more simple
docker logs <containername>Uninstalled, gave it 10 minues, reinstalled, working fine now!
Although I am not seeing any of the images I upload go into the folder I specified, so not sure what is up with that.
Thank you for the quick responses and help @Zeus , appreciate it! 🙂
If you reset it everything needs to be re uploaded
I am using an external library
I was just testing uploading one image at a time from my mobile phone as a means of transferring it to my server
to my temporary uploads directory, then using a regular file manager, organizing it into my external library
in other words, I just finished setting up remote machine learning, what a breeze. absolutely kicking butt on my 3090!