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Jack Brown

Migrating from external library to default - missing files

Hello,

I am nearly complete on my task of migrating from external to default library. I run 'immich import' on CLI to re-import all assets from external to default. In order to check nothing is missing I run a script to hash each file in my external library and compared to what is in /data/library/admin. I have 225 files which appear in external which aren't in default once I removed all my .yml, .tmp and unsupported formats etc.

For the ones that remain I have manually checked a few by running immich upload <file name> -j, typically I see it's failed to import due to duplicate asset, I then take the asset_id of the duplicate to view in Immich however they all seem to be corrupt / missing as Immich shows metadata but I get an error message where the Image is supppose to display which shows 'Error loading image'. The file path in Immich is also showing in the /data/upload directory rather than /data/library.... I have no files in /data/upload....Any idea why this would happen?
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