Container paths question

[adminmat]

I'm running the Immich container and would like to keep the thumbnails on the cache drive for faster manipulation of GUI image browsing. Within the container /photos contains directories encoded-video, library,  thumbs and  upload.

 

I currently have /photos mapped to /mnt/user/immichphotos/

 

As I understand you can't have subdirectories mapped to different drives that are under the same share so I would have to create paths in the container template for each of the directories above encoded-video, library,  thumbs and  upload.

 

So would this be the correct method?

 

(container path > unraid path)

/photos/encoded-video/ > /mnt/user/immichphotos/encoded-video/

/photos/library/ > /mnt/user/immichphotos/library/

/photos/upload/ > /mnt/user/immichphotos/upload/

/photos/thumbs/ > /mnt/user/immichthumbs/ (new share, set to Cache only)

 

Then I'd have to manually move the files. Does this make sense?

[martabal]

Sounds good

[adminmat]

Thanks @martabal I know this was more of an unRAID question. But appreciate all your help with my questions on Github as well 🙏

[Tarnished]

I have been struggling to get this to work sadly. Initially I have setup the container so that /photos would use a share in my array. It then created the mentioned subfolders (encoded-video, library,  thumbs and  upload.)

 

However, now I would want to move the thumbs folder to cache, so I edited the container paths (deleted the default /photos path) and created the new ones suggested by adminmat. I then only moved the existing folder  thumbs (which was on a share in the array) to a new share that sits in the cache.

However now whenever I start Immich it seems that it doesn't fetch those files as it says the following in the log:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/photos/thumbs/

I am also unable to open any photos, so I suspect that Immich isn't also connecting to the already existing library folder.

 

@adminmat did you do anything else in the container settings?

 

Edited March 29 by Tarnished
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[zac_ary]

Hey @Tarnished,

Did you end up getting this resolved, if you still need help let me know, took me awhile to get it working.