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Moving from Imagegenius old compose to new one and stuck

I recently migrated my Immich Docker setup to use a new media volume path inside the container and moved away from imagegenius. Previously, my media folder was mounted as:
/mnt/tank/cloudvault/immich/photos:/photos
/mnt/tank/cloudvault/immich/photos:/photos

Now I changed it to:
/mnt/tank/cloudvault/immich/data:/data
/mnt/tank/cloudvault/immich/data:/data

and updated my
.env
.env
file accordingly:
IMMICH_MEDIA_LOCATION=/data
IMMICH_MEDIA_LOCATION=/data

I’m running Immich server version v1.137.3.

After restarting, Immich fails with errors like:
ERROR [Api:GlobalExceptionFilter] Unknown error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/photos/thumbs/...
ERROR [Api:GlobalExceptionFilter] Unknown error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/photos/thumbs/...

It seems Immich is still trying to access media files under
/photos
/photos
, but my volume mount is now
/data
/data
.

---

What I’ve tried:

* Verified that
/mnt/tank/cloudvault/immich/data/library
/mnt/tank/cloudvault/immich/data/library
contains all my media files.
* Confirmed the volume mount maps host
/mnt/tank/cloudvault/immich/data
/mnt/tank/cloudvault/immich/data
to container
/data
/data
.
* Set
IMMICH_MEDIA_LOCATION=/data
IMMICH_MEDIA_LOCATION=/data
in
.env
.env
.
* Restarted the entire stack (server, database, Redis).

---

Additional context:

* The database was originally initialized when the media path was
/photos
/photos
.
* I understand that Immich stores absolute file paths in the database.
* I read that starting from v1.136.0, Immich supports automatic media path migration on startup.

---

Should I do anything at all? Will it automigrate that stuff?
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