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Have thumbs in a different folder - Immich

Immich•9mo ago•

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Have thumbs in a different folder

II'm using Immich in Docker on a VPS with a Backblaze bucket mounted at

/mnt/remote

/mnt/remote

for 300GB of photos. I want imported images on

/mnt/remote

/mnt/remote

, but thumbnails need to stay on the VPS, not remotely.

My

.env

.env

includes:

UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/remote
THUMB_LOCATION=/home/xxxxx/docker-apps/immich-app/thumbs

UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/remote
THUMB_LOCATION=/home/xxxxx/docker-apps/immich-app/thumbs

Initially, my

docker-compose.yml

docker-compose.yml

mapped thumbs under

upload

upload

:

volumes:
  - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
  - ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload/thumbs
  - ./backblaze:/mnt/remote

volumes:
  - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
  - ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload/thumbs
  - ./backblaze:/mnt/remote

This saved thumbs remotely.

Changing

docker-compose.yml

docker-compose.yml

to separate thumbs:

volumes:
  - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
  - ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/thumbs # Changed path
  - ./backblaze:/mnt/backblaze

volumes:
  - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
  - ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/thumbs # Changed path
  - ./backblaze:/mnt/backblaze

Now I get an

ENOENT

ENOENT

error: Immich can't find

/usr/src/app/upload/thumbs/.immich

/usr/src/app/upload/thumbs/.immich

. How do I keep thumbnails on the VPS while uploads go to the remote disk?