Hey,
so i have a nextcloud docker instance running and i want to set up immich aswell. But the photos are nested inside the nextcloud folder structure and are all owned by www-data user. What is the easiest way to get immich access to them without duplicating them with the proper permissions?
I want the files to exist once.
You can add external library path to your nextcloud folder. Then you can see everething in immich, but immich cant eddit or delete files from external library.
Yeah according to the other comments i’ll go with immich as the main photo storage and just sync them over to nextcloud via external storage connection.
Thanks!
I toyed with this idea, but the directory structures are completely different, and they both keep their own databases. If one updates images, the other database will be out of sync. IMHO, it’s best to keep them separate
Nextcloud doesn’t like changes on disk in its own file structure, but you can mount “external storage” where Nextcloud is okay with changes and happily scans the location when you access it (a network share, or a local file path also works; SMB share will probably get you around the permissions problem though.)
Don’t know about immich as I haven’t used it, but you will probably have to decide on one of the two services to be “in charge” of the files, I think.
Yeah according to the other comments i’ll go with immich as the main photo storage and just sync them over to nextcloud via external storage connection.
Thanks!
That sounds reasonable. I would do the same.
I run both, and I do not upload pictures to Nextcloud. I know it doesn’t solve your problem about a Nextcloud instance already running with the photos, but I highly recommend moving over to immich for your photos needs and using it’s file structure. I.E. reuploading the files and deleting them from Nextcloud. If someone does have a better way to do it, I could have used it a few months ago, lol.
Then you need a third application (e.g. syncthing) to replicate the auto upload functionality of Nextcloud.
Personally I don’t want to have same functionality in a different stack because of pipeline issues. Doesn’t solve OPs issue I just wanted to point out that your solution might have drawbacks OP didn’t see at first glance :)
Not sure you do. Maybe you can use one to move the existing files on Nextcloid, but immich has an auto upload feature that works perfectly fine on their android app.
I didn’t know that about the immich app, thanks for pointing it out!
Just throwing out an idea, could you create an smb share from nextcloud. Mount that smb in the server that hosts Immich( even if it’s the same server that hosts nextcloud).
Now, in Immich add an external library. The path of external library could be the smb mount.
Consider testing this, if it works for you.
You could try making a symlink, so that there is a ‘file’ in the Nextcloud directory which points to the Immich gallery, although I’m not sure how good it truly works.
