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What are you using for photo storage and organization? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hey, I'm wondering what everyone's solution is for self hosted "cloud" storage of photos? I've been running a PhotoPrism server on my Synology for a while but it's missing some features I'd like to have. While we've set up auto-uploading from different phones to the web server, I haven't found an easy way to share read-only access to the pictures or specific albums. There is an admin login, but no way (that I've found) to create multiple users with different permissions.

So SelfHosted lemmy, what's your solve for photo storage, sorting, and sharing?

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[–] warmaster 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm planning my homelab, and from the research I've done, Immich is the best but not ready for production and it can't use an already existing photo library. NextCloud memories is the next best alternative, and supports already existing libraries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Immich can use existing libraries, either by importing (copying) existing files, or just by adding an existing folder of files in place.

[–] warmaster 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Importing is another thing. But using an existing folder is exactly what I want. Is this feature new ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it's pretty new, in the last month or so. It's currently something you have to run manually with the CLI to do an import, but they should eventually have it added into the web interface and run automatically.

https://immich.app/docs/features/bulk-upload#importing-existing-libraries

The important thing is the --import flag which adds files without copying them.

Personally I run the CLI command inside the immich-server container, here's the full command to make life easier since this took me a bit to figure out, make sure the directory is mounted into both the immich-server and immich-microservices containers. You can mount it as :ro if you want (I did) to make sure Immich can only read the files and not change them.

immich upload --key apikeygoeshere --server http://localhost:3001 --recursive /some/path/to/existing/photos --import

[–] warmaster 1 points 1 year ago

Amazing ! Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A PR was opened last week to add the biggest first element of external library support. Hopefully in the relatively near future it'll be merged. I'll be giving it a shot when it merges.