Getting rid of the orphans
Hey everyone 
The title sounds horrible, but please bear with me
Attached is my post from Reddit (there's a strict character limit here on Discord, but In a nutshell, I lost my Immich photos, but I held onto to the DB, which is now preventing me from re-importing all those photos because Immich thinks I already have them (and I do, but only as DB entries).
Since that Reddit post a couple of days ago, I figured out that instead of deleting the DB and starting from scratch I can at least leave the DB and attach the old photo libraries as external libraries. That worked, but now I have still to get rid of the orphaned DB entries.
Initially, I needed a workaround for the Immich uploader to ignore the fact that the images I'm trying to upload are “duplicates” and let me “overwrite” the images with the ones I'm trying to re-upload. I say “overwrite” as the original images are gone from their location and DB entries are now orphans. As that approach wasn't possible (actually, do let me know if it is), now I'm attaching folders as external libraries and I am looking into a way to remove the orphaned DB entries.
I looked into the core deduplication tool, but I have 40K+ matches, and it's a mixed bag...sometimes it's the orphaned photo marked for trashing, but sometimes not.
I also tried https://github.com/Thoroslives/immich_remove_offline_files but that tool relies on the orphans report from the Immich Repair page, which has been hidden for some time, so the tool reports 404 on the expected /api/reports page.
Is there an easy/sane way to get rid of the orphaned files (if not to replace the orphaned files with their identical counterparts from the external lib or another storage location)?
I just updated to 1.133, that worked fine. I can share my yml and env, but I don't think they're that important for this particular puzzle.
Thanks for anyone checking this one out
The title sounds horrible, but please bear with me
Attached is my post from Reddit (there's a strict character limit here on Discord, but In a nutshell, I lost my Immich photos, but I held onto to the DB, which is now preventing me from re-importing all those photos because Immich thinks I already have them (and I do, but only as DB entries).
Since that Reddit post a couple of days ago, I figured out that instead of deleting the DB and starting from scratch I can at least leave the DB and attach the old photo libraries as external libraries. That worked, but now I have still to get rid of the orphaned DB entries.
Initially, I needed a workaround for the Immich uploader to ignore the fact that the images I'm trying to upload are “duplicates” and let me “overwrite” the images with the ones I'm trying to re-upload. I say “overwrite” as the original images are gone from their location and DB entries are now orphans. As that approach wasn't possible (actually, do let me know if it is), now I'm attaching folders as external libraries and I am looking into a way to remove the orphaned DB entries.
I looked into the core deduplication tool, but I have 40K+ matches, and it's a mixed bag...sometimes it's the orphaned photo marked for trashing, but sometimes not.
I also tried https://github.com/Thoroslives/immich_remove_offline_files but that tool relies on the orphans report from the Immich Repair page, which has been hidden for some time, so the tool reports 404 on the expected /api/reports page.
Is there an easy/sane way to get rid of the orphaned files (if not to replace the orphaned files with their identical counterparts from the external lib or another storage location)?
I just updated to 1.133, that worked fine. I can share my yml and env, but I don't think they're that important for this particular puzzle.
Thanks for anyone checking this one out
