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Immich•6mo ago•
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teh g

Migrate from imagegenius to docker compose on Unraid

Hello! I am looking to move from the imagegenius app on Unraid to the docker compose method. Since imagegenius has the
IMMICH_MEDIA_LOCATION
IMMICH_MEDIA_LOCATION
set, I wanted to confirm what environment variables I should set.

I noticed my folder structure from the imagegenius app ended up like:
    /photos/backups
    /photos/encoded-video
    /photos/library
    /photos/profile
    /photos/thumbs
    /photos/uploads
    /library
    /photos/backups
    /photos/encoded-video
    /photos/library
    /photos/profile
    /photos/thumbs
    /photos/uploads
    /library


To help with using my cache instead of the array for things, I have the mapping like this:
    /mnt/user/immich/photos/backups/:/photos/backups
    /mnt/user/immich-cache/encoded-video/:/photos/encoded-video
    /mnt/user/immich/photos/library/:/photos/library
    /mnt/user/immich-cache/profile/:/photos/profile
    /mnt/user/immich-cache/thumbs/:/photos/thumbs
    /mnt/user/immich/photos/upload/:/photos/upload
    /mnt/user/immich/libraries/:/libraries
    /mnt/user/immich/photos/backups/:/photos/backups
    /mnt/user/immich-cache/encoded-video/:/photos/encoded-video
    /mnt/user/immich/photos/library/:/photos/library
    /mnt/user/immich-cache/profile/:/photos/profile
    /mnt/user/immich-cache/thumbs/:/photos/thumbs
    /mnt/user/immich/photos/upload/:/photos/upload
    /mnt/user/immich/libraries/:/libraries


New files are being uploaded into
/photos/uploads
/photos/uploads
. Would I want to specify the UPLOAD_LOCATION to the root of my unraid folder like
/mnt/user/immich/photos/
/mnt/user/immich/photos/
and the IMMICH_MEDIA_LOCATION to
/photos
/photos
still?

I mainly am not sure if Immich is trying to use the UPLOAD_LOCATION environment variable elsewhere (as in the literal upload location that should map to /photos/upload in my case).

Two random notes
/photos/library
/photos/library
is empty. Not sure what it is for but I have I mapped anyway since the folder existed. I think
/libraries
/libraries
is mounted in case I wanted external libraries, which I am not using.
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