Move thumbnails folder to a share in cache [UNRAID] | Immich | Page 1

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 11:28 AM

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Let me start by saying that Immich is a great and fundamental app for someone like me who is trying to ditch Google services for good.
For the past couple of days I have been running an Immich docker image in my Unraid system, but I would like to move my thumbs folder into my cache (SSD). I believe this would decrease the amount of access that my array suffers for the thumbnails. The remainig folders (encoded-video,library and upload) would continue to be in the array.

For that I have edited the docker configuration with the following setup:

/photos/encoded-video/ -> /mnt/user/immich/encoded-video/
/photos/library/ -> /mnt/user/immich/library/
/photos/upload/ -> /mnt/user/immich/upload/
/photos/thumbs/ -> /mnt/user/immich_thumbs/ (This is a cache share)

Afterwards I simply kept all the other folders in the same cache and just moved the folder "thumbs" to my new share. However, Immich isn't recognizing any of the paths as no photos and thumbs are being fetched.

Does anyone had this problem before?

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hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 11:29 AM

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I have full access to my Immich as I an running it on a local level (and I continue to do so even though my photos appear blurred due to the missing thumbs)

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peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 11:42 AM

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Did you manually move the thumbnail folder ?

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 11:42 AM

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peak cobalt Did you manually move the thumbnail folder ?

I did, he is now sitting in the new share (cache)

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The problem is that now that I have created the new paths in Unraid, it seems that immich simply doesn't connect to them

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 11:43 AM

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Can you see the thumbnails when you ssh in the container ?

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 11:45 AM

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Sorry for the question, but what would be the command that I could enter in the console of the docker to see that?

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 11:46 AM

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docker exec -it Immich bash

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 11:49 AM

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uhm nothing appears when I run that command ...

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 11:49 AM

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Replace Immich by the name of your immich container or its ID

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Once you’re in the container execute ls /photos/thumbs

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 11:51 AM

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now we're talking, thank you!

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Yeah when I run the command "ls /photos/thumbs" it responds "thumbs"

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and if I list just "ls /photos" then it shows me the following in a blueyish color

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encoded-video library upload

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and the thumbs name appears with a green highlight

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 11:53 AM

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Can you see thumbnails in the thumbs directory ?

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Or is it empty ?

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 11:54 AM

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immich is no longer creating me a "thumbs" folder in the default path

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 11:55 AM

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🤨

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Sounds like you have an issue with your docker volumes

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 11:56 AM

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here are my volume mappings

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https://i.imgur.com/TJBefnc.png

Imgur

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previously I just had the default one (/photos/-> /mnt/user/immich)

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but since I wanted the thumbnails to be on a separate share, hence why I segmented the mappings

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ever since I did that mapping, Immich doesn't fetch the already existing folders nor the thumb folders (that have been moved)

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perhaps the unraid docker instance doesn't support multiple paths to /photos?

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 12:53 PM

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It does

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Just be sure to have the right permissions

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 12:54 PM

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I've searched around the Immich docker and within the docker I didn't find any configuration for paths

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So I'm assuming that I have to do that in the docker mapping volumes, outside of the container

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 12:55 PM

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peak cobalt Just be sure to have the right permissions

how so?

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 1:10 PM

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Make sure all folders have the same permissions

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Should be nobody:users by default

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 1:13 PM

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https://i.imgur.com/CUS1XYa.png

Imgur

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I suppose the permissions are correct in this case

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 1:15 PM

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Yep it’s fine

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Did you restart the container ?

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 1:16 PM

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Yup

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 1:25 PM

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Nothing in the container logs ?

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 1:25 PM

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whenever I try to open an image I get the usual error

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Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/p

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[Nest] 549 - 03/29/2024, 1:24:32 PM ERROR [ExceptionsHandler] ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/photos/thumbs/...

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https://i.imgur.com/fBoqasw.png

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This is the thumbs new path that I had to add in the cointainer

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I removed the original path 'Path:/data'

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I initially tried removing the path within the 'path:/data', but then I couldn't save the new path aditions

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So I had to remove that field

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:01 PM

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Ah!

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I managed to find one of the culprits

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I went ahead with forcing a new rescan of the thumbnails

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and within this folder

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/photos/thumbs/ -> /mnt/user/immich_thumbs/

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immich created a folder with random characters

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but I moved the folder "thumbs" to here (/photos/thumbs/ -> /mnt/user/immich_thumbs/)

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But Immich was looking for the folder with random characters, which as inside the thumbs folder (/photos/thumbs/ -> /mnt/user/immich_thumbs/thumbs/folder with random characters)

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I basically moved the folder with random characters one directory up (so it's like - /photos/thumbs/ -> /mnt/user/immich_thumbs/folder with random characters)

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and now the thumbnails are being grabbed

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:12 PM

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Oh wait you had /mnt/user/immich_thumbs/thumbs ?

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:15 PM

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yeah

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:15 PM

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lol that’s bad yeah

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:15 PM

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And I also have /mnt/user/immich/upload

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https://i.imgur.com/DRS6hJP.png

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peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:16 PM

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Docker translates your path so, you should only have the subdirectories

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:16 PM

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oh ok ... But in this way I will loose the separation right?

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for example whenever I want to go to the folder for encoded videos, now I can go to immich->encoded-video->files

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that way I will just have immich->random character folder->files

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I will not know what will be the folders for encoded-video, library and upload

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Will I have to create a separate share for each (immich_encoded-video, immich_library, immich_upload)?

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Or you don't see a benefit in having this organization?

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:22 PM

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I don’t understand your issue

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:23 PM

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hollow barn https://i.imgur.com/TJBefnc.png

What’s wrong with that mapping ?

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The issue you had is that you had /mnt/user/immich_thumbs/thumbs instead of /mnt/user/immich_thumbs

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:24 PM

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I didn't changed the mapping in the docker configuration

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all I did is that I deleted the thumbs folder in the folder structure

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so that now the folder structure is just "/mnt/user/immich_thumbs/"

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oh wait

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:27 PM

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Yeah sounds good to me

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Why do you say you will loose the separation ?

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Do you use a storage template ?

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:28 PM

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Sorry, I was thinking bad on my case

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the volume mapping are correct, I was making a stupid confusion

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just to make sure that everything is OK I will try to upload an image

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to see if both the thumbnail and picture is stored corretnyl

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*correctly

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all is good martabal

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My stupidity is inmesurable

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as soon as I corrected the thumbs folder

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all the others linked themselves

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:35 PM

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Nice !

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But IIRC, if you don’t use a storage template, all assets are kept in the upload folder

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:39 PM

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yeah, my library folder is blank indeed

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bear in mind that mas uploaded photos from my takeout files

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so I suppose they are correct in being stored in "upload" folder?

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:40 PM

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Yep

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If you have a storage template and run the migration job, it should populate your library folder

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(It moves your files from /photos/upload/whatever/photo.jpg to /photos/library/your_template/photo.jpg)

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:41 PM

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oh ok

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It's like "now that I have my photos uploaded, let me organize them in the way I want"

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:42 PM

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Yep exactly

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:46 PM

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oh ok!

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The migration doesn't run automatically correct?

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I have to go to JOBS and manually run it?

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oh just saw in the notes section

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it aplies to new assets as well

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:50 PM

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Yep when you upload an asset, immich automatically moves it

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You just need to trigger it when you change the template

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:51 PM

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Thank you for the help martabal. If I change the storage template in the future, does Immich retroactively apply the changes?

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:52 PM

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You’re welcome

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Yep, but you have to trigger the migration job

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 2:53 PM

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Oh thats great!

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Thank you so much for the help martabal! Is ther any way I can classify the support ticket as finished?

peak cobalt Mar 29, 2024, 2:56 PM

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It was my pleasure

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I think you can close it with « /close » 😉

hollow barn Mar 29, 2024, 3:14 PM

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Thank you once again martabal!

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/close

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