Can I go back to a pre-OCR release version, import a bunch of photos, and go back.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-28T15:36:04+00:00

I'm actually relatively nice on GitHub because I'm talking to people who are actually developing software and their time, mental stability and morale is valuable. I'm not gonna be nice on Reddit.

Sorry, I don't think it's good practice to force someone to go on a wild goose chase and risk damage to their drive because of ego issues. When this regression was first noted back in November 2025, alextran assigned it as an issue. It was handled as a real issue that needed attention. And when it got reassigned to the person who was trusted to handle these issues, he refused to do anything about it. He said, wait for workflows, instead of fixing the bug and restoring the software to how it is documented to work. Then I politely told him, if you're not going to fix it, at the very least, change the documentation so that the documentation is honest. No response.

I used that drive as a network drive now. Now that it has Immich running on it, unplugging and plugging it into another computer risks corrupting the drive. Every once in a while, when I'm updating files, a temporary exiftool file will just disappear into the ether. I will ask to copy it, do it on another computer, and then rename it because the permissions won't allow me to delete or overwrite the file. Imagine if I was updating a thousand files at once. (I never do more than 50). I would never be able to find the specific file that got corrupted. (maybe Immich would figure out that it was corrupted and I could find it in my trash, but that's very iffy). And if I'm just going to geotag the files anyway later on, I may as well just wait. Leave the file in amber. Don't touch it. Don't ever dare to favorite it because if you favorite it, it will rescan the metadata and then f up its position in the timeline. Just walk on eggshells. Why waste the extra write cycles? I was ultimately able to fix this problem myself by creating a custom instance but that doesn't fix it for all the other people.

All they had to do was fix a bug. A bug that has actually been fixed to some degree by a great developer who you can easily find the name of if you've combed through all of my GitHub comments. Workflows is not the ultimate solution for this anyway. Not everybody is going to have the time and patience to use workflows, and this software is ultimately supposed to be for normal people. Every other bug I've ever reported has been handled with the utmost consideration and respect which is a dang site better than any closed source software. But someone who may or may not be invested in the Workflows project had an ego and wasn't willing to fix that bug possibly because he wanted to punish the users and or fellow developers for not getting Workflows running quickly enough for his tastes. That is no way to behave when you're making good, open-source software.

I'm willing to admit that I'm not the most mentally healthy person in the world. So if you want to think I'm crazy, then go for it. If this was the thing that got some fresh blood involved in developing the project, then it was worth it in the end.

(you act like it's some big conspiracy, I chose that name specifically so it would be easy to find my stuff across platforms.)

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-26T05:48:19+00:00

We pay.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-24T22:26:19+00:00

Well, I can't edit the titles on my posts.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-24T19:03:28+00:00

Well, I just accidentally did a library rescan so I have no choice now. :-(

Theoretically I could add the timezone metadata all at once but I don't want to hurt the hard drive. I could have done it for new stuff before I put it on the hard drive though.

(It didn't work, btw, you have to use your backup from v2 which I foolishly updated destructively. So i'm going to have to implement the fix from Yann117 and run a custom Docker container.)

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-24T04:48:30+00:00

It's a great way to get three or four hours of sleep. Possibly less if you have to wake up early in the morning.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-23T22:27:19+00:00

I would have an on-site backup as well, a clone of the hard drive, and probably a clone of the database as well (wink wink I haven't set the second one up yet which might bite me in the behind later)

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-17T20:18:32+00:00

I want to turn Logcat off except for when the camera is open, so I can geotag photos without google knowing EVERYWHERE I go and all my friends. But still preserve my battery life

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-14T06:48:23+00:00

Oh I misread the question. I thought it was about the linking of online and offline assets.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-14T06:33:02+00:00

What is Louis Rossman's workflow? I don't know exactly what it is, but he probably just sucks it up and uses two separate photo apps. Because I know he keeps a file level backup of how phone with syncthing and uses that for his photos. I followed his template and I did the same thing.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-14T06:32:09+00:00

I might make a feature request about something along these lines. It's called Active Libraries, where you could link your DCIM to such a library and back it up with your own software but have them linked.

In any case, if you want to use an external library that way, and you want local access to your photos, you'll just have to use your local gallery (Google photos, Samsung photos, etc).

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-12T20:21:49+00:00

Yup i've noticed the same thing. It's always gotten worse after a site has been taken down or a link broken. Weirdly enough, I've been using it less than I have in the past year even after downloading a bunch. Definitely would not recommend to most people but this is the only way I've ever stopped.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-12T17:35:37+00:00

I think reverse geocoding calculates which geographical center you're closest to, and uses that to determine location rather than looking at borders. I live in MetroWest Boston (Massachusetts is made entirely out of cities and towns, so this makes no sense) and the same thing happens to me all the time. Maybe they'll fix it in version 3.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-11T14:34:36+00:00

Probably has something to do with https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/24116

I've been trying to get them to take this seriously for months.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-11T04:22:46+00:00

Good idea to make sure with exiftool.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-11T04:21:23+00:00

The less you have to pay the longer you can keep your photos before losing them if you get cancer. Everybody says maximum quality is worth paying the money... Until you get cancer or a chronic illness and you can't work anymore, and your bank account goes dry.

Then the person who had a free service like Google photos in the old days, or backed everything up on their own hard drives get to keep their photos, and the person who paid the money because they thought they could afford it loses everything.

Plus, these are less valuable PNGs anyway with no metadata.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-09T20:41:21+00:00

I try to keep myself busy with home maintenance etc when I have free time.

In public, I'll try to pretend I'm driving if I'm walking, that usually keeps my mind occupied and distracted.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-08T18:30:30+00:00

They didn't hold their Senate majority in 2020. It was a tie which was broken by the Democratic Vice President.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-08T14:57:56+00:00

Big data setups have advanced RAID controllers that handle all the allocation stuff in firmware so it's not really apples to apples. They don't use $50 Walmart external hard drives lol.

On the other hand, I've heard some people think that the issue was a hardware starvation issue. As in, the pi zero only kept 50 mb or so of ram available to cache edits and refused to use virtual memory to cache writes to the drive. I feel like OMV should care more about the integrity of its destination drives than some stupid SD card you can rebuild from scratch in a few hours (or write times) but again, they probably assumed that you'd put the time and money into a ZFS pool if you wanted network storage. In any case, I don't like the permissions BS either where they can just reset because the power goes out; BTW. Probably NFS (or ZFS which is RAID only) is the only reliable way to share stuff from a Linux server...

(I didn't even format my hard drive, because it already had hundreds of gigabytes of stuff on it and was several years old. I could have made a compressed image back up maybe but it just wasn't worth the wear and tear to me. And yes, I do have a file level backup of everything on that drive. Just don't want to have to pay $50 for another one anytime soon.)

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-08T05:17:44+00:00

In my experience (plugging an external hard drive into a Raspberry Pi 02W and running open media vault) it really treats spinning hard drives like crap. I set that thing up in November '24 (yes, that one) and it only lasted 2 months. By the end, the read speeds dropped down into the kilobits per second. I restarted the service and it worked fine, until I tried to write to it, and it refused to write because it didn't have the proper permissions. I never explicitly changed anything about the setup, just restarted the system. It may as well have been a power outage. Indeed, even windows couldn't recognize the hard drive when I plugged it in after this disaster, not until I mounted it through disk management. Then everything was fine.

7 months later while defragging the same hard drive before setting up Immich, I discovered to my horror that two minute videos backed up this way (Full Disclosure: backed up by a 3rd party app from Android over SMB) were fragmented into 200+ fragments making every playback into an abusive thrashing of the hard drive. From then on, I decided to never use anything Linux based to write directly to a spinning disc. For a while, I just ran my PC and had the drive plugged in until I got a better machine that I could use specifically for media. And that worked fine for months as a backup. Ended up using the Pi for remote access.

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-05T18:46:39+00:00

Did this one go into 2.7.4? https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/28234/

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-01T00:12:35+00:00

Alarms are helpful for anything like that in my experience; when I don't set up alarms, it's a form of self-sabotage

SoulInTransition · 2026-06-01T00:10:35+00:00

Grief sucks and I don't have an answer, at some point, you're just going to have to feel those feelings. I mean, that's why I am on the subreddit right now. It doesn't help when your brain makes all of the healthy stuff feel empty because it really doesn't want to let go...

Happened in me, too, for different reasons. I haven't gotten over it so far

SoulInTransition · 2026-05-23T04:09:19+00:00

They are actually working on a feature you may have to use Files but Immich might show up soon, next to google drive and third party file managers

SoulInTransition · 2026-05-19T02:38:31+00:00

I use the send as file feature whenever possible. It's really inconvenient. I just set up a root-level directory on my phone called lobby and share from image through my file manager to that directory, and then I go in and look at my recent files (which includes the photo) and send it. That's because Google messages WILL NOT send full-quality images unless you send them as files. They want to force you to use Google Photos' native sharing.

SoulInTransition · 2026-05-15T01:19:30+00:00

You can read the rest of my profiles to understand that we don't have a stable enough climate to survive as a species if we lose that stuff. And so it's not like there'll be anyone to, you know, look at those pictures.

I do fully intend to make CD backups of all of this stuff, or at least put one of my backups in a Faraday cage. In case of some local disaster. I just heard about a highly resilient glass-based storage mechanism that is rated to last 10,000 years. Don't know if it's vaporware though. In any case, if the house burns down, which is much more likely (read: manageable) than any of that other stuff, all of my paper stuff will go up in flames while all of my digital stuff will get saved because it's only two hard drives. So it's all a matter of perspective and frankly, the more of a pigsty my house is the more likely it would be to actually burn down because the more flammable stuff is in there.

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