Hi,

I wanted to update the Immich Docker Container to the newest Version, as it stopped syncing my photos.

When clicking "apply update" it started the update process but after downloading everything (took unusally long) I got the following message:

After that I expanded my Docker Image from 30GB to 35GB and after that it worked so far that it said "command executed successfully".

But I could see that the Container was not updated.

So I tried again, and this time by clicking "update all".

The download took even longer and again, nothing happend to the Immich container, but the others were updated.

It seems that Immich cannot be updated.

Hope somebody can help me.

Thanks in advance.

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I'm also experiencing some difficulties with updating immich:

A scrub shows no errors.

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Edited September 10, 2025Sep 10 by Aran

Ok, i got this solved. Here is what i did (but i didn't understand all of it). This is by no means a general 'guide' but it worked for me.

0: STOP docker service in unraid.

1: i run btrfs filesystem df /var/lib/docker in unraid console to check metadata-space. Mine was 89% full.

2: i run btrfs balance start /var/lib/docker to it says it will take long but wwith me it took 1m30s. My output was : Done, had to relocate 23 out of 23 chunks

Next i tried to update the container again but now i got a new error:

Error: failed to register layer: rename /var/lib/docker/image/btrfs/layerdb/tmp/write-set-3547222487 /var/lib/docker/image/btrfs/layerdb/sha256/52cd78144e196b428ad3ebe42832d0546845af11c2f2117719f39249d3e40e33: file exists

So, i think that folder was corrupt because of the defragmented btrfs filesystem. Correct me if i'm wrong.

3: i checked for a folder named 52cd78144e196b428ad3ebe42832d0546845af11c2f2117719f39249d3e40e33 and there were 2. One with the long string and one with the same name but with the '-removing' appendix at the end.

4: i deleted both folders with rm -rf /var/lib/docker/image/btrfs/layerdb/sha256/52cd78144e196b428ad3ebe42832d0546845af11c2f2117719f39249d3e40e33-*

5: restart docker service in unraid

6: you can do docker system prune -a to remove all non-used images, cache, leftovers, etc... but BEWARE, it will also delete all stopped containers !!

7: i did an immich update and ik worked

@stainless_steve i think this could work for you too. I never meant to hijack your thread but i replied because i tought our two errors were related. I hope this could help someone with the same problem.

Don't forget to tag this as 'solved' if it solved you problem ;)

Edited September 11, 2025Sep 11 by Aran