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Does THUMB_LOCATION actually work? - Immich
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cristian.knur
Does THUMB_LOCATION actually work?
I was trying to get thumbs to be stored in a separate folder so I followed this
:
https://immich.app/docs/guides/custom-locations/
And yet the data is still stored in UPLOAD
_LOCATION
/thumbs
I am certain the container has the right env vars
, and that the custom location for thumbs exists
, and it
's writable
, etc
.
So before posting I tried to find where in the source code THUMB
_LOCATION was used
, and found no references to it
, except for the one markdown used to generate the doc above
:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aimmich-app%2Fimmich+THUMB_LOCATION&type=code
So I am thinking
.
.
.
. maybe this env var existed at some point but not anymore
?
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