Getting Images into Immich
Hello, i am very new to the immich setup and got it working on a raspberry pi with external drive mounted into it. Everything seems to work fine. At the moment i am dragging photos via web interface from my pc to the external drive and let it index by immich. Works pretty good. Sometimes with bigger photo folders, the upload breaks up and i need to restart it and there is a lot of time consumed by uploading already transfered images and finding duplicates. Is it in any way possible to connect the external drive to my pc and transfer all pictures to some folder, which immich then sorts after i reconnect it to the raspberry pi.
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.Yes - If I am understanding correctly, you can use the external library feature (see https://docs.immich.app/guides/external-library/ for more info)... By external drive, do you mean USB drive or something else like a NAS??
External Library | Immich
This guide walks you through adding an External Library.
It is an USB connected drive
Okay - a bit easier than a NAS - you just need to mount it as a volume for immich in docker-compose.yml. Something like:
(note, you can use tags other than read only)
Then when you are in the immich administration console, you can add the import path /mnt/media/external_lib/ (or whatever you called it)
Hope this helps 😄
Use immich-go or immich-cli @MatthiasArgh
Thanks @SuitablyMysterious and @Mraedis . After some reconsideration, some reading and some ChatGPT discussions, i think i managed to install immich-cli and understood, that i need to transfer data via scp to some folder on the mounted drive and then let immich-cli transfer it to immich. I think SuitablyMysterious solution would be good too 🙂 But i somehow got stuck with the immich-cli solution
The problem with external libraries is that whenever you disconnect the USB stick you'd have to restart immich containers for the usb stick to be recognized again, which is not what you're aiming for I guess?