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ghostkilla

Help with adding external library

Complete newbie here. New to docker too.

I have a ds224+ and have been using synology photos for a while. I want to try out immich and link my synology photos dir as an external library to immich. Is my compose.yml correct?

https://logs.notifiarr.com/?3ea6cd0209ac5536#GzLaWtfuGUwMHZrcUwJyjkTMdi8dNVjTFPCv7JL8o65a

I keep getting "1 path failed validation."

what should the right side of
:
:
be? That dir path doesnt currently exist.
- /volume1/home/Photos:/usr/src/app/external:ro
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