Comment on Immich restore postgresql
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
This does not help you but it makes me think of this:
I understand why it makes technical sense to do so but immich storing things in a database in general is more nuisance then practical.
We want those fotos accessible in our own file system where we have full control of what is what.
Immich job is to put the pictures from a phone to the server and also to display all pictures within a certain directory.
It does a good job at both. Having your own file structure is not a problem and it seem to even know and adapt if pics get moved around.
But we have to manually move the photos out of its own structure into our own every time we do a big upload.
Maybe i can set something up with syslinks so it all appears centralized as a big “upload” folder to be sorted.
Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
When you first set it up there is an option to set a custom filesystem, I selected that and then chose the default which just sorts by year and day
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I am aware and actually use this but it appears too restrictive for our needs.
The structure we were already using cannot be recreated. Honestly i could live with the default. But my partner who is less into computers likes to make their own backups on external hard drives and uses shared network drives rather then the immich web viewer.
tribut@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
So use whatever you were using before and add that as an external library to immich?
immich.app/docs/features/libraries
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I am, that works really well actually and it even knows when the same file was moved.
But to add new files to that external library, which is in fact the only main library. We need to dig in immich file structure which at the very least enforces different directories and also uses those to store some forms of metadata.
Now its not the biggest deal, just an annoyance. the fix i am currently thinking is to move the immich directory to somewhere hidden and us systemlinks to get all uploads centralized under a single directory for further processing.
happydoors@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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