One import path scanned, the other has not
After hours of trying, I've managed to get one import path scanned.
I'm passing this through via smb from another lxc, and while it might not be advised, it's working very well.
It's the parent folder that I've made available through smb, and the folder inside that is what I've added as an import path.
When I add a second folder, it says the path is valid, but it does not scan.
If it helps, it seems like it is trying to scan but not doing anything:
root@Immich:/opt/immich# docker logs -f immich_server --since 20m | grep -i -E 'Nadia|NasPhotos|/photos|scan|index|import|error|warn'
[Nest] 18 - 09/03/2025, 12:47:43 PM LOG [Api:LibraryService~77ugcw32] Starting to scan library 7b08f408-1473-43c8-b335-15319288dc7e
It's probably a really easy fix, but for the life of me, I can't work it out. Thanks for all your help.
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I believe this is them
Why are you using those overrides? ML doens't need to know about external library.
So all your photos you are trying to mount via external library are located in /photos?
so i can just delete the whole yml overide section? Yeah so the two separate libraries are on my NAS and I've shared /photos via SMB, and one of the folders in /photos has scanned and is working fine, but the other is not (but it comes up as a valid path in immich ui)
You can move the
/photos:/photos into the volumes section of the server above. Then remove whatever that override section is
Can yo ushare a screenshot of your libraries page
Can you do
ls -l /photos/Nadia/NasPhotos in both the host and container and verify the container has access to those files?container returns this: root@Immich:/opt/immich# ls -l /photos/Nadia/NasPhotos
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 0 Dec 3 2024 2024
dr-xr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 0 Apr 19 15:38 2025
dr-xr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 0 Apr 6 13:05 'Disposable cam'
dr-xr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 0 Nov 14 2024 "Nadia's Nellie"
dr-xr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 0 Aug 25 20:20 'Phone Photos'
root@Immich:/opt/immich#
And the host (and lxc I've set smb up) returns this: root@nas:~# ls -l /photos/Nadia/NasPhotos
ls: cannot access '/photos/Nadia/NasPhotos': No such file or directory
However, I get the same results when I do the other external path (the one that's working)
to clairfy, the same 'no such file' when running the second command
We reallllly don't recommend running docker in an lxc (Neither does proxmox). It can lead weird permissions issues that are hard to debug
I would have done it inside a vm, but I thought everything was fine from the first library doing everything well. Do you think it's best to go to a vm? I'm a little tight on resources so that was my main reason to go lxc/docker
I think it would be worth a try. We have seen a lot of these cases where mounts and things have wonky behaviour in lxc's
fiar enough! off the top of your head, would a vm take substantially more resources? Just looking for a lightweight solution (though I'll ideally grab some more ram soon)
I mean I would call a headless linux distro minimal as far as resource use, your services running will be the majority of the load
makes sense 🙂 Thanks for your help, I'll spin up a vm and have another crack!
Ok, update. I've got it in a vm, but still the same issue
Hi, just wondering if anyone has seen this? 🤔
Sorry just getting back to this. Can you get shell into the container. Then head to where you are mounting the external library and see if you can actually see any images in there? (All within the container itself)
All good! I appreciate the help 🙂 So it's running in a vm, and I can ssh into it and I can see both paths and files inside those paths 😵💫
Right. But can you see the files from within the container when you get a shell in the immich server
yep, just got into the container via how you said, and I can see all the files again 😛
Can you set the logging to finest and try and re-scan the library?
Please show output of all that you’re seeing both inside container and in VM
Thanks for the reply, I'm away for a week at the moment, but I'll get that to you asap when I'm back. Cheers!