Can Immich show external libraries separately or does it mix all the photos together?
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rambos@lemm.ee 7 months agoAlternatively you can just use external library and point it to nextcloud photos folder. That way you can’t edit or delete files in immich, but you can see them just like any other picture. I upload everything from my phone to immich, but still have some folder organized photos in nextcloud.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 7 months ago
rambos@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It mix the photos together
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Uff that’s a bit of a deal breaker.
I’ve tried Immich before and it’s fine for uploaded photos because it detects it’s the same photo even if you rename it. But as long as it doesn’t do that for photos from external libraries I can’t trust to put anything into its albums. And if I can’t use its albums to organize and everything is dumped into one big pile it’s a show stopper.
The only workaround I can think of would be to make multiple users and load different external libraries to different users, but it’s not a great solution. The mobile app doesn’t support multiple users anyway, I’d have to logout and login all the time.
couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
There Is a CLI tool to upload folders as albums and it keeps them as their original folders. The CLI didn’t work for me and I’ve read others had the same issue. Found a solution was to use immich-go which is a tool someone else made and it worked for me.
Tried to upload a screenshot but it’s not working 🤔
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 7 months ago
The only problem there is that, at least a whole ago, you will get duplicate images. Between the external library and your app upload
rambos@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If I understand correctly, that would happen only if you upload same files to both nextcloud and immich, but I dont see a reason to do that.