Immich not reading database properly
Hello all, Just wondering if anyone has had their immich db stop reading properly? Its saying there is no such file or directory?
Docker desktop and this was because data was moved off the disk and to another one. We've had an issue with our disk being close to dying.
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This is not Immich reading files from your database
Thumbnails are stored on your disk as well. Did you actually copy those?
I've copied the entire directory off. I have my docker desktop setup so that it reads from a windows file structures (As I had google photos). Since copying those directories into another instance of immich, its not working as is normal - It's also giving my a 500 error when trying to access administration
Error: Error: 500
at Object.mt [as ok] (http://192.168.0.10:3003/_app/immutable/chunks/BYB68Yzy.js:1:8008)
at async V (http://192.168.0.10:3003/_app/immutable/chunks/BKkcvvZ3.js:1:2121)
at async vr (http://192.168.0.10:3003/_app/immutable/nodes/34.BufroOdd.js:1:2990)
at async Ke (http://192.168.0.10:3003/_app/immutable/chunks/DP2jmxmE.js:1:16986)
needless to say:
This is just random compiled js not being broken
Could be a caching issue
Could be the server not being up
Definitely not worrying (that part at least)
What would help for fault finding?
Cause I cant really do much without that
Not opening multiple help desk threads in the first place...
Valid - That one is for a truenas issue
This one is for my windows box
The other one says "unable to read .immich in Docker Desktop"
Docker desktop is a windows thing
I've got that closed - You're right, I thought i had put in the true nas issues.
So
The server cannot find all those thumbs, so either you haven't copied them or they aren't where Immich expects them to be
Alright. The file structure as before looks the same to me. I have my add only backup that I've restored to that directory and it all looks the same.
would this be the same for the inability to access administration?
would this be the same for the inability to access administration?Excuse me? This could also be a permissions issue if you're asking that, yes
I've set the folder structure to full control for all users.
Try to find that file:
thumbs/fe725b59-d1d0-4dbb-bc06-c1004858dbbd/e1/f5/e1f54014-3d44-42f4-8e05-9e64af508954-thumbnail.webpThat exists
Can you open it?
and is accessible in the folder structure
indeed
Did you ever recreate the container?
docker compose down && docker compose up -dNo I haven't recreated. Just turned them off, copied the data off the drive, new drive in and copied the data back. Then turned them back on
Please try doing that then
For completeness, also please post the details requested by the bot
compose file etc
and also the paths & how you changed them
docker compose ^
Recent Changes
Stopped Immich Stack
Moved data off D: Drive
New Disk in
Moved Data back
Started Immich Stack
Immich Server started complaining about not being able to see a .immich file in encoded video - it was present.
Windows 11 runing Docker Desktop
Latest version of immich
Pre me moving data about - all good times.
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DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich
DB_PORT=5432
REDIS_HOSTNAME=immich-redis
IMMICH_MACHINE_LEARNING_URL=http://immich-machine-learning:3004
DB_HOSTNAME=immich-postgres
DB_USERNAME=portainer
DB_PASSWORD=portainer
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/src/app/bin
NODE_VERSION=22.13.1
YARN_VERSION=1.22.22
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/lib:/usr/lib/wsl/lib:
NODE_ENV=production
NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all
NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all
IMMICH_BUILD=13037889168
IMMICH_BUILD_URL=https://github.com/immich-app/immich/actions/runs/13037889168
IMMICH_BUILD_IMAGE=v1.125.7
IMMICH_BUILD_IMAGE_URL=https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pkgs/container/immich-server
IMMICH_REPOSITORY=immich-app/immich
IMMICH_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/immich-app/immich
IMMICH_SOURCE_REF=v1.125.7
IMMICH_SOURCE_COMMIT=4fd8c1b3c1b4eaf5be7c01c2a87bb6e80117415e
IMMICH_SOURCE_URL=https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commit/4fd8c1b3c1b4eaf5be7c01c2a87bb6e80117415e
IMMICH_IGNORE_MOUNT_CHECK_ERRORS=true Currently set as immich server was complaining about not seeing the .immich file
That i run in power shell? I dont have to specify what it needs? (Only ask as I have 2 other docker containers..
This is in the scope of the compose file in the directory you're in
So the files were at
D:\Immich\, you stopped the stack, moved them somewhere else, replaced the drive that was at D:, moved them back, restarted the stack?
Did you restart the system at any point in that process?Yep, Sorry I forgot to mention that. After the data got moved off. Stopped the PC, replaced the drive then turned it back on.
The drive letter remained the same across the transfer
I've redeployed my images (Using portainer) still no avail. I've removed my ignore errors flag in my env settings and have
microservices worker error: Error: Failed to read "<UPLOAD_LOCATION>/encoded-video/.immich - Please see https://immich.app/docs/administration/system-integrity#folder-checks for more information.", stack: Error: Failed to read "<UPLOAD_LOCATION>/encoded-video/.immich - Please see https://immich.app/docs/administration/system-integrity#folder-checks for more information."
[Nest] 7 - 02/08/2025, 1:21:05 PM ERROR [Microservices:StorageService] Failed to read upload/encoded-video/.immich: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'upload/encoded-video/.immich'
Also does this make much sense to you? - I know its errors but does the microservices error make sense.?
Restarting let it spring back to life...