ThinkOnTheEdge
IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
Wondering if - or _ is the best separator... or something else... (over-thinking phase before trying it out...)
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
OH! Yes, this is the kind of idea I was looking for...
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
(And one sure fix would be to just turn off Storage Template, which is tempting, but there are tradeoffs... I do enjoy having a nice folder structure based on date.)
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
Windows exposes the "problem", but I still wish I could fix it, even ignroing Windows.
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
If anyone else arrives, regarding the "xyproblem", the problem is that I don't think that
IMG_1234.HEIC and IMG_1234.heic should represent entirely different photographs, despite the Linux filesystem allowing them to both exist in the same folder.
I would like to be able to "fix" that in Immich, despite not having control over what Apple decides to do.30 replies
IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
Interesting, thanks. That's the best lead so far anyway. We'll see if I get around to it or give up. 😅
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
and yes, I can just live with it if must be, I wanted to try asking though rather than giving up before asking.
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
To be fair, writing a script would only take me a few minutes if it is truly soemthing doable via API...
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
Yeah, I could put them into a WSL filesystem, but that is another added complication and also the WSL filesystem is going to be slower to work with than the native NTFS filesystem.
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
I just wish it could do that even if they overlap with different case.
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
iPhone also can just have duplicate file names for photos, I don't know how it manages that, but Immich adds
+1 to those.30 replies
IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
But in that case I just delete the edited video everywhere and move on, as I don't need it.
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
This also happens if you edit a video on an iPhone. The original video will be
IMG_####.mov and the edited one will be IMG_####.MOV30 replies
IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
I think the "real problem" is that Apple stores images that have overlapping filenames with differnet case in the extension. I'm honestly shocked that this is just "how it works" by default on iOS and MacOS, but my guess is that their system just does some sort of generic filename collision check and says, "It's fine" and moves on, and for some random reason, some files get into the system with upper-case extensions and others with lower-case extensions.
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
I'm literally just downloading entire folders of images from Immich to look at/edit/play with on my Windows system, and a couple of folders end up with missing images due to this.
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IImmich
•Created by ThinkOnTheEdge on 12/27/2024 in #help-desk-support
Is there a way to make Immich treat file names as case INsensitive?
For sure, just like I have thousands of images and there are about 30ish with this problem, so I feel like if I could just "hack" them away, I'd be happy and it wouldn't come back for years.
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