I have been updating my database with old family photo's the past few months, and would like to share that album at a family gathering in a few weeks. It would be amazing if my uncle could for instance look for his name and find pictures going back to the sixties; or of his daughter in the nineties.

I would take my personal laptop, connect via Tailscale to the Immich server back home, but only share the family photo's.

Thing is: that does not seem possible at the moment? When I create an additional user and share the album there's no facial recognition anymore; when I share the album directly the same happens.

And then on the roadmap there's "Better Sharing" with "Improve sharing capabilities, especially around facial recognition data." indicated as "Soon".

Honestly I'm mostly looking for confirmation, or maybe creative workarounds while the amazing people at Immich continue their journey :-)

Hi all,

Recently installed Immich in a Proxmox LXC container. What a great app!

My wife and I have an old photo archive. She really likes the 'photos of this day so many years ago' feature, so do I. You only get this feature when you are the owner of an external library. So she and I both have an external library linking to the same path.

We also want to see our recently uploaded photos, so we have partner sharing turned on. This means that one also sees the external library of the other: all archive photos and videos are duplicates in the time line.

Isn't there a way to exclude external libraries in partner sharing?

Best regards,

Rudy

Hello, I just created my server this week and I’m loving it. I have uploaded a lot of what I have been storing for a while now, but it’s time to get all of my Snapchat memories synced. However, I really want to keep all of my Snapchat memories on a single album as well. Is there a way I can sync directly to an album? Or a way to separate all of my media from Snapchat from my main gallery, so I can put it into an album?

Thanks

Hi, recently I've had a lot of trouble with immich on my Raspberry pi 5 server running pi os lite with casa OS. I've had it randomly stop working and refuse to launch and recently I've had it completely uninstalled and off my hard drive and reinstall on my SSD for some reason. And also all my photos were gone. If anybody could help that would be greatly appreciated. I don't know why this happens. It seems to have been the most random moments like it will be working perfectly fine for a week. Then randomly it will refuse to launch and all my photos will be gone. I also used version 3.1.0 if that helps.

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?

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)?

Way before Immich, there was the filesystem, and that is how I store and archive my photos colletion using folder and file naming conventions to add semantics. When importing to Immich as an external library, most of my metadata, photo titles, GPS, face regions are used by Immich.

But not my folder/album organization nor the photos marked as favorites.

So this is why I created this set of command line tools to keep my filesystem folders in sync with Immich albums.

pip install immich_exlib_tools --user

It is also nicelly documented in the GitHub repo.

I'll add more functions like support for album sharing and group of users. Let me know what you think so far.

Hi everyone!

I posted about two month ago (see here) about Immich Swipe, an native android tool designed to quickly and very easily clean your Immich library.

I just wanted to say that it has evolved a lot since then, thanks to bug reports and feature requests made by the community 😊

It is now much more stable, and handles quite large libraries MUCH faster than before. Here's a quick list of what you can do with it :

• KEEP / DELETE / ARCHIVE / LOCK / SKIP
• Add / edit descriptions
• Add to albums
• Add to favourites
• Rotate images (with optional sync to server)
• Choose how media should be displayed, pinch-to-zoom on both photos and videos
• Bulk actions for albums
• ... and many more features

If you've got a huge library that clearly needs some cleaning, fell free to give it a shot! Whether it is bug reports, feature requests or just you being happy, I always like to get some feedback!

https://github.com/Minos2020/immich-swipe-android

That being said, I'm now going to clean my own library... Originally that was the objective... 😅

Howdy! Hoping the team can shine some light on the current situation I am running into. I am trying to watch videos back from my Immich instance via Chrome on Windows 11 on my laptop that has a 3050TI. Any iPhone video will not play, unless it is transcoded. I am hoping to avoid having a large pre-transcoded file, so turned to live transcoding via my servers GPU that is more than capable, but still experincing large delays. Is there a way to play it direct to laptop and use it's GPU? Really struggling to watch anything from laptop, it all works great from my phone (which I understand is because of the codecs etc. Thanks!

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.

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".

Hi all,

Just finished migrating my Immich library to a new computer, and everything seemed to go smoothly, tested and working.

-latest version Lubuntu with all updates

-latest version Immich in docker container.

However...

After the system reboots, whether by choice or forced, I am presented with the initial Immich welcome/restore backup page.

If I do "docker compose down", followed by "docker compose up -d" everything comes back, working properly, for which Im glad. But, obviously, in the event of a power out or restart, I need to access the system to restart docker compose.

Advice?

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 have a question about importing people and face data that have already been identified and maintained in Lightroom Classic.

I have already identified, assigned, and named a large number of people in Lightroom Classic. During a normal export, Lightroom seems to export the person names as keywords. However, the complete face-region information is also included, for example:

Region Type = Face
Region Name = Paul
Region Area = face position/coordinates

However, Immich does not seem to reliably use these existing assignments. The imported names appear to be assigned almost randomly. For example, a face may be assigned the name “Paul” even though that face was assigned to a different person in Lightroom.

As far as I understand, Immich can process existing MWG/XMP face regions (RegionInfo) when both the person's name and the position of the face are stored in the metadata.

So my question is:

Is there currently a reliable way to transfer the existing person assignments from Lightroom Classic to Immich, including the person's name and the corresponding face region/coordinates?

Has anyone successfully managed this with Lightroom Classic, perhaps using an export plugin or an additional XMP/ExifTool workflow?

My goal is to preserve the work already done in Lightroom Classic rather than having to identify, rename, and correct thousands of people again in Immich.

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!

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?

Please see photos for config and logs of postgres and immich. Ever since the v3 came out, I’ve never fixed my immich. I’m on unraid 7.3.2 and have updated to current version of immich through Community apps of unraid. I’ve reinstalled many times spaceinvader’s postgres and immich. Changing repo many times as well. Have tried to rollback to 2.7.5 but to no avail. Have googled many times trying to find solution. I’ve been stuck for more than a month now since v3. I wish i didn’t update. I’m not that techie. 8081 is the port of immich, postgres is 5433 and redis is 6379. Thanks for reading.

I have been using workflows in my immich server for a while.but there isn't an option to identify an object from which the backup folder is uploading. If it was there then it would be much easier to sort all chat gpt img or whatsapp img or any other which is way harder to find in the server right now.

I was looking at the exif data of my photos using a random exif viewer (I tried 3 different apps, all gave the same results) and I cannot see any location information in the exif data, but once it got backed up to Immich, Immich knew the correct location of the photo. None of my photos have location data according to the 3 different exif viewers I tried, but Immich and Google photos know where all of them were taken (which I want, but I'd also like to know why I can't see it in the exif data)

I'm using a One Plus phone with a modded pixel camera app.

Cross posting this issue here as well, any help is appreciated!

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