• kurcatovium@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    How does it store images? Does it make one huge pile and sort it by metadata and external db magic?

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      7 months ago

      Pretty much however you want. You can let it import and sort by a folder logic of your design or can make it read an already existing library without immich modifying the structure.

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        7 months ago

        Thank you, will have to check the docs… I remeber someone told me it can’t import folder structure, but it’s been a while.

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          7 months ago

          It definitely can, it’s called an “external library”. I just added my entire photo collection and use Immich as a frontend to view them all

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            6 months ago

            Can you view an external library using your own folder structure and not in a timeline display? I was under the impression Immich can’t do that, at least not without manually creating them all as separate albums or by using a script.

            Eg.

            I have photos from the last 30 years stored in this type of folder structure:

            2002

            • 2002-06-23 Mum’s birthday party — 2002-06-23 Mum’s birthday party-0001.TIF

            I’m less interested in using it for photo backup since I’d prefer not to use an automated tool since I curate everything in my library so that it stays organised - I’m looking for something for viewing/displaying and sharing.

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              6 months ago

              Ah, yeah I guess you can’t browse your photos using a file system view. I just meant that it won’t automatically reorganize your pictures on the file system.

              However you can create albums via an API call. You could probably write a script that adds each folder to an album or something.

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      7 months ago

      Yes. But it allows to define a custom storage layout based on user date time filename typ and album.