r/immich

I want to keep my art libaries seperate from personal libaries without everything in one timeline view. So far i havent a found a way to do this besides running a seperate immich server which is overkill

Hi all,

I am running Immich on CasaOS. Recently I moved all my pics on local storage to an external SSD and updated paths on CasaOS. Everything works fine except thumbnails. Immich is not generating thumbnails for new uploads. Meanwhile I can see thumbnails for older pics.

I go to each photo that is not showing thumbnail and use the refresh thumbnail option from the menu bar. This resolves it for me. So it's not about /thumbnail folder permissions.

Triggering generating thumbnails also didn't work.

Any thoughts?

A lot of people say I should fix Immich instead of jumping ship so here's the problem: I can't download anything uploaded to Immich because the download speed goes from 100mb/s to 0 very quickly and never recovers.
I can however download images under ~50mb because it downloads fast enough that there's not enough time for the speed to flatline.
Setup:
Dell R710 with 64gb ram
TrueNAS community edition
Intel x540

This problem happens exactly the same with different images, and video files and when using the following setups:
Direct connection to the sever (server mobo ethernet to computer)
Connected over the same wifi network as the server
Connected via proxy
Direct connection to an Intel x540 on the server
Every setup tested with different windows and mac computers and different cables

The same images and video files can be uploaded and downloaded from the same pool but from brand new folders that have no connection to Immich.

In a last ditch effort to save my data I tried turning off Immich, changing all the permissions in all the folders to default and accessing the files through WinSCP (yes trying all the above setups). The same problem persists.

There are so many great community tools, scripts, and plugins for Immich, but it's tough to keep track of everything. Is there an existing list or wiki where they are all collected in one place?

If not, where would be the best place to start one (e.g., an awesome-immich GitHub repo)?

Hello, a couple of days ago I moved/ migrated immich to a new computer (I had been using a Windows PC to test Immich and decided to move it to its own dedicated PC running Ubuntu). Immich had been working flawlessly on this new machine. I then decided to shut down and start back up my machine, and now I can't get into my newly non-existent Immich account on either my phone or PC. The Linux PC where Immich is locally hosted is now trying to get me to re-set up Immich and is currently on the "Welcome to Immich" prompt. Before shutting off my PC, I did not shut down the Docker container. Is that possibly the issue?

Edit: discovered the issue. Ubuntu was automounting the my DRIVE, labeled "IMMICH" and assigning it different directories when it did so. When I first set up the server it the path called out the drive as "IMMICH", when I rebooted Ubuntu auto mounted it as "IMMICH1".

Hello to upload from local phone storage to album on Immich server via Android Immich app?

In the Android Immich app, editing the Immich album and then clicking on add images only displays images stored on the Immich server, not any images/videos stored locally on my android phone

I tried mounting a nfs share from my ugreen nas as the location for immich media.

It worked for some time, but I got permission issues where it could not read the folders from the share.

Points I'm having questions:

- which squash option should I use in the nas?

- would using smb fix these issues?

- do i need any group/uid hacks on the lxc side?

Appreciate your help!

Okay so I've seen a number of options for migrating from iCloud + iPhone to Immich, but most of the threads are around a year old and a lot has probably changed since then

I saw one commenter say that simply using the immich app will download the high-res version of a photo to your iphone, then delete it as soon as it's uploaded to immich. That seems like the simplest route - is there some advantage to using icloudpd, PhotoSync, or some other method over this?

Thanks!

Hi guys — cross-server shared albums (federation, whatever you want to call it) has been one of the most requested Immich features for 4+ years. We all want that dead-simple Google Photos sharing experience with friends and family... well, fellow self-hosters, now we've got it.

If like me you got bored of waiting, time to get cloning: immich-shared-albums, a sidecar addon for Immich.

It never touches your Immich instance directly — it talks to it via an API key and runs in its own container, so any issues stay isolated to the addon. Minimal setup, and once it's up you can create share links that anyone else running the addon just opens to join the album and start adding photos.

What you get:

• 🔗 Simple link sharing — open a link, join, done. Stock Immich apps, nothing else to install
• 👤 Per-user, not per-server — so your parents won't see your antics from that lads' holiday
• 💾 Your storage stays yours — each server keeps its own assets, so joining an album doesn't dump hundreds of unwanted photos onto your disk (full quality still there to download whenever you want)
• 💬 Cross-server comments — near-instant messaging between servers
• 📦 Isolated & self-hosted — one small container, no forks, no patched Immich

Go have a play and let me know what you think:
👉 https://github.com/lukeet332/immich-shared-albums

Made a quick demo showing it off too:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3GO-YFchYo

i am looking for a app that when the app is open is take all the photos off selected external drives, SD Cards,

Hello Community! I noticed when i syncing all photos from iphone i see duplicates. Then i run removing duplicates, syncing again and got all x2 photos again. How to fix this?

Hi,

I'm running immich since 1.x.x version (now on last 3.1.0) with no problem... 4 family accounts syncing all mobile photos, and all working like a charm in terms of face recognition.

BUT... I have a fifth account with photos from "old cameras" attached as external library. I never reviewed faces there, but now I have an idea and I need those faces to be as right as possible... and... I don't know why, but my two sons are recognized as same person... it's crazy because they are 17-old boy and 15-old girl!!! They're brothers... but not that equal!!! :) On the other way, my wife is being detected as many different persons...

I've got recognition distance at 0.5... but I can't say what to do with that.

It's thousands of mixed photos under same person... How would you "fix" that the quickest way? How would you "reset" that? I've tried running face detection & face recognition again in all my library... but no luck. Should I try changing machine learning model?

I don't take that many photos on a daily or even monthly basis, so when I'm trying to flick through 20 years worth of photos, particularly if I'm drilled down into just one sub-album, there's often huge white gaps everywhere and it's a bit of a waste of space.

I'd like to have a more compact view, does anyone know if this is possible?

I have a 4GB RPi 4B that I’m planning to use as a travel router with RaspAP and PiHole on RPi OS Lite in the microSD

I want to run Immich on it with 512gb nvme for library. A 64gb flash drive that I initially bought to be the OS drive would hold the database to lessen SD card wear and tear.

First question is, would the 4gb RPi be enough for this use case?

I have an existing Immich instance. Would migrating from it be as simple as doing rsync of the library folder before running the new instance?

I have been using it for a few months on iOS and android but I’m always confused if backup is running. I usually restart the app a few times until I see the “remainder“ backup message

is there anyway to force backup?

Hi,

I am desperately trying to get the remote machine learning to work. I followed the steps to create the docker container and stuff. Generally thats working. But when I try to go to the machine learning settings to add the URL I just get this:

https://preview.redd.it/hea3g92rmzjh1.png?width=896&format=png&auto=webp&s=a39fdd18154cba8a76efb463b527dabc1499b521

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

I use the basic docker compose file together with the file for hwacceleration, just with the nvidia specifics:

name: immich_remote_ml

services:
  immich-machine-learning:
    container_name: immich_machine_learning
    # For hardware acceleration, add one of -[armnn, cuda, rocm, openvino, rknn] to the image tag.
    # Example tag: ${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}-cuda
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}-cuda
    extends:
       file: hwaccel.ml.yml
       service: cuda # set to one of [armnn, cuda, rocm, openvino, openvino-wsl, rknn] for accelerated inference - use the `-wsl` version for WSL2 where applicable
    volumes:
      - model-cache:/cache
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 3003:3003

volumes:
  model-cache: