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•Created by alex on 4/23/2025 in #help-desk-support

Change default upload drive in Windows

Hello, I have just started using immich, I'm very excited! I am using Windows, I have installed immich using Docker Compose. C: is an SSD and E: is a big HDD, so i want to upload my pictures to E:. Is there a simple way to do this? I have read the docs about External Libraries, but i am not sure that's what I need. Here is what I have tried so far: (1) I have modified .env file to use: - UPLOAD_LOCATION=/e/immich - UPLOAD_LOCATION="E:/immich" But neither work. If i leave UPLOAD_LOCATION=./library it works great. Any ideas? (2) ChatGPT said I should use this: .env file: UPLOAD_LOCATION=/immich/upload docker-compose.yml:

  immich-server:
    ...
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: "E:/immich"
        target: /immich/upload

But ofc it did not work 😅 (3) I also tried the External Libraries feature. But if I leave everything as default and just add the - "E:/immich" line:

  immich-server:
     ...
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - "E:/immich"

Then it gives this error when doing docker compose up -d:

Error response from daemon: invalid mount config for type "volume": invalid mount path: 'E:/immich' mount path must be absolute

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