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Issues with multiple users uploading identical photos

Hi all, I've had immich deployed for myself for a while and it's worked amazing. I am very impresses by it. I decided to add another user into the mix and I had some issues. For the most part it works great, but every time when the 2nd user tries to upload a photo that I originally shared to them a while back (meaning it is also uploaded to my immich library initially) the 2nd user's uploads are stuck in their uploads directory, not moved according to the storage template, and the 2nd user gets the "error loading image" message in their timeline. This works the other way around as well.

The immich docs do say that the program should handle identical files as user's individual assets. I understand that immich has some deduplication methods, but I want to see if anyone else has encountered this and fixed it.

We share photos via text and we want to keep our phone storages separate with some sharing as well as our immich backups being separate with some sharing. I don't want to enable partner sharing.

Thanks for any guidance!
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