Short question: Is there a way to print a list after an upload through the browser of what files were ignored as duplicates and possibly what file they were deemed a duplicate of?

Background: I'm new to Immich. I have a hard drive full of photos that I want to pull into my library. I've always been pretty meticulous about pulling pics off my phone and storing them on this drive. I create a new folder when I pull them and I dump everything currently on the phone into the folder. I'm usually really good about deleting the pics off the phone at this point. I don't have a database to manage it or anything, so it's possible there are duplicates between the folders, but I suspect the numbers to be low. I use Google photos too to back up the phone, but I do this with a lower resolution to save space. So, I consider the hard drive pictures to be the originals and what I want in Immich.

I've been uploading my photos in batches (1 folder at a time). I'm uploading through the browser from the localhost and during the upload Immich is saying sometimes as many as half the files in a folder are duplicates. I get the pop-up toast list of duplicate warnings in the browser, but this isn't useful for more than a handful of duplicates. I'm getting notices that hundreds or even thousands of pics were ignored. I can't find a log anywhere. I have looked at the duplicate tool in utilities, but this seems to be trying to use ML to detect similarities in the photos after they were uploaded. There are only 5 photos in there to review.

Can someone please help me understand where Immich stores assets? I've read the documentation regarding external libraries and storage templates, but am still confused.

I may have lost a significant part of my library: a large number of assets display a blurry thumbnail and show an error message when I try to view them (see screenshots). That seems to indicate that the images used to be there but now only a database reference still exists. I ran find /usr/src/app/uploads -iname "*image_0010*" in the Docker container (an example of my issue is an image file called "IMG_0010.jpg") and no such file exists.

Here's how I mapped the volume in docker-compose.yaml - I think it's correct, but maybe that trailing "/upload" is a problem?

    volumes:
      - uploads:/usr/src/app/upload

Here's the directory structure inside the Immich Docker container:

|-- cli
|-- server
`-- upload
    |-- backups
    |-- encoded-video
    |   `-- 72be7b0f-b367-42d5-ae86-5d5feaa481ad
    |-- library
    |   `-- 72be7b0f-b367-42d5-ae86-5d5feaa481ad
    |-- profile
    |-- thumbs
    |   `-- 72be7b0f-b367-42d5-ae86-5d5feaa481ad
    `-- upload
        `-- 72be7b0f-b367-42d5-ae86-5d5feaa481ad

Inside upload there's a library dir and a second upload dir. What's the difference? They are vastly different sizes so I'm guessing that upload/library/ is the main library and upload/upload/ is for uploads from the app:

root@433fdc9d55c6:/usr/src/app# du -s -h upload/library/ upload/upload/
246G    upload/library/
18G     upload/upload/

So my questions so far are:

• Is there a problem with how I mapped my Docker volume (e.g., am I causing recursion issues?)
• What's the difference between upload/library/ and upload/upload/?

I also have a more general question about asset location: if I upload images from the Immich app, I presume they're stored somewhere in the upload dir - if so, does that mean that if I wanted all my photos to be in an external library, I would have to refrain from using the Immich app's upload feature (and roll my own method of uploading images to my external library dir)?

Thanks in advance for any help or explanations you can offer!

Congrats to the team for their great work!

How should I understand that immich still does not do chunked uploads? How am I supposed to upload my multi-gigabyte video file through my 1MBit/s upstream connection? What if the connection resets every few hours?

I am genuinely disappointed after reading the changelog, but I am still hopeful. Are chunked uploads planned for later? Or does something in the changelog include chunked uploads, even if they are not explicitly mentioned?

Edit

From discord:

Chunked is not in this you are correct. This rework puts the chunk work closer in sight.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47625657

Your ML model cache volume is getting blown up during restart and the model is being re-downloaded during the first search post-restart. Either set it to a path somewhere on your storage, or ensure you're not blowing up the dynamic volume upon restart.

In my case I changed this:

  immich-machine-learning:
    ...
    volumes:
      - model-cache:/cache

To that:

  immich-machine-learning:
    ...
    volumes:
      - ./cache:/cache

I no longer have to wait uncomfortably long when I'm trying to show off Smart Search to a friend, or just need a meme pronto.

That'll be all.

Does anyone here know if sorting assets by filesize is supported? Say, if someone wanted to quickly find assets that take up excessive space and easily remove them.~___~

I have immich installed on two different Pixel phones, a 6a and a 7. It will not update photos in the background - only when it is open in the foreground. What's going on with that?

I have automatic background backup on in the app, and allow background usage enabled for the app in the phone battery usage settings.

What am I missing?

So, I can't just go there, and browse what people have posted? Like I can go to youtube, and even without an account I can watch videos.

I can't just watch videos and browse the site? I can only install an app to use it?