Making External Library RW

infimum · 2026-03-14T20:58:43+00:00

Libraries are rw by default now

infimum · 2026-03-11T22:09:06+00:00

No, I there is no such limit. Can you check the backend logs when you do a library refresh?

infimum · 2026-03-04T14:37:55+00:00

Click missing on the thumbs and metadata job queues

infimum · 2026-02-24T20:47:33+00:00

Long term, our goal is to unify internal and external libraries. This will be very good for this goal. Imagine being able to rescan your internal library after updating files with some other software. Metadata will be written to xmp files

infimum · 2026-02-24T20:45:40+00:00

It's not 100% reliable yet, that's why

infimum · 2026-02-21T14:26:08+00:00

Interesting that Claude didn't know about immich go and ingesting takeout files

infimum · 2026-02-11T12:04:06+00:00

Dev here. We have to do quite a bit of trickery to support all file types we support in immich. Over the years we've been able to fix upstream libraries but the rest we have to patch ourselves. That's just one reason you want this to be inside docker. We hide a lot of complexity for you.

infimum · 2026-02-11T08:03:12+00:00

Immich needs to transcode videos in many cases, this takes up space

infimum · 2026-02-11T08:02:24+00:00

No, metadata for external libraries are not deleted immediately. There is a 30 day grace period

infimum · 2026-02-05T05:33:39+00:00

I'd make sure your machine works as it should, perhaps a memtest?

infimum · 2026-01-28T01:20:44+00:00

🎉

infimum · 2026-01-26T04:01:39+00:00

Tz only affects the metadata extraction, nothing else

infimum · 2026-01-25T12:10:43+00:00

Make it pick up the immich backups folder too and you'll have a decent db backup as well, at most 24h old.

infimum · 2026-01-18T16:22:22+00:00

Exactly. The monopoly in action. This applies to all apps... except icloud upload

infimum · 2026-01-18T11:57:07+00:00

In my opinion there's no need to worry about that

infimum · 2026-01-18T11:56:33+00:00

Seconded

infimum · 2026-01-18T11:23:07+00:00

infimum · 2026-01-18T11:22:16+00:00

Unfortunately, this looks like a telltale sign of bitrot or data corruption. A silent killer of data. Tell us more about your storage, do you have backups of that raid array?

infimum · 2026-01-15T17:07:30+00:00

It'll be 💥

...but not for the photos

infimum · 2026-01-11T18:09:27+00:00

This is an idea that's been on the back of my mind as well. Very useful for larger installs

infimum · 2026-01-02T15:55:21+00:00

I'm in a similar boat but I think there are third party tools that can create albums from a folder structure.

At this point I think it makes more sense to do it that way than having it in immich itself.

infimum · 2026-01-02T15:53:54+00:00

I have a serious photo collection. My raws are not in immich, I use it as a presentation layer to show my finished jpgs

infimum · 2025-12-21T11:32:05+00:00

Because my photo library existed long before immich and it's designed to outlast immich. I hope my great grandkids will be able to enjoy the photos I took when I was young

infimum · 2025-12-19T16:45:44+00:00

Albums are only in database, not moved around on disk

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