Custom locations not respected

I'm trying to separate where immich uploads photos from the rest of the data needed to run the application, thus I've followed the instructions https://immich.app/docs/guides/custom-locations/. The problem is when I start my docker container it seems to ignore the custom locations, recreates all the subdirectories where UPLOAD_LOCATION is specified, then errors because it can't find one of the .immich files:

immich_server            | [Nest] 7  - 03/05/2025, 1:14:26 AM   ERROR [Microservices:StorageService] Failed to read upload/library/.immich: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'upload/library/.immich'
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