I have an family immich instance self-hosted. All pics from my kids devices are auto-uploaded on our instance. This is nice, but also updates a lot of photos and videos of they kidding and joking, ando lot of repeated stuff. Immich only allows that I exclude my own stuff, and it’s really boring have to login with each account to exclude my kids stuff. Is there anyway that I can manage and exclude photos and videos of other users?
Hmm theoretically, you could spin up a second Immich and mount the folders in there as external libraries with write permissions 🤔
This is just an idea which came to mind reading your post. But I would assume that messes with the metadata stored in your primary Immich instance or rather its DB. So probably not the best idea in hindsight. Also even easier approach to achieve this would be using a simple imager viewer tool directly on the filesystem 😅
_Nemo_@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Long-time immich user, similar problem. The issue (for now) is that only they owner of the media has write access. With partner sharing, asks you can do is read the media (and add them to albums).
What I do for now: I add my partner’s trash media (photos of receipts and other stuff one snaps pics of for practical reasons and then forgets) to an album: “please delete”. I periodically ask them to go through it and remove anything they want to keep, them have them delete everything in that album in batch.
Why this may not be practical for you, OP: you have two “trash producers”, so you’d have to keep a “trash” album for each of them (and sort trash media correctly).
What immich will do in the future : they have more granular permissions controls in their roadmap. The feature is likely to come with a greater overhaul of partner sharing. Partner sharing, as of now, is partly “broken” due to design decisions: you can’t
Before anybody asks: no, there’s no ETA…
cevn@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I am sure you can automate that using api keys.
_Nemo_@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Care to specify what you mean by “that”? It’s been a lot.