Help adding external library directories

[kindred egret]

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[night tinsel]

Hello I experimented with the feature of external libraries a bit this weekend. And I was having the problem, that I was able to add the library but it did not show up. The problem that I had was, that the immich-microservice container also needs access to the external library, and I missed that.
(Maybe you want to check if that is the case for you too?)

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[blazing cipher]

How did you give the microservice container access too?

[night tinsel]

In the docker compose, you have something alike (if you have an older docker-compose.yml):

immich-server:
  volumes:
    - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
    - /mnt1/:/mnt1/
immich-microserverices:
   volumes:
    - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
    - /mnt1/:/mnt1

Where the last last line is the important one in the immich-microservices part.