Setting Immich Upload folder on volume2

Posted by jackhammer57

Good morning Tom, I was chatting with TomAI the other day trying to set up immich upload folder but we were unsuccessful. I was wondering if you have figured out a workaround for setting the immich upload folder to /volume2/data/photos. As AI said it would be added to your todo list Thanks, Joe

3 replies

tomspark wrote:

Hey Joe — sorry for the wait, and good news: this is doable right now. TomAI just missed the setting (I'll get it taught). Immich's upload folder is controlled by one line, PHOTOSPATH, in your SparkBox settings file. If Immich is still basically empty, do this: 1. sudo mkdir -p /volume2/data/photos 2. sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /volume2/data/photos 3. In /opt/sparkbox/.env set this line: PHOTOSPATH=/volume2/data/photos 4. sudo sparkbox up That sends all Immich uploads to volume2. One heads-up: if you've ALREADY uploaded photos, this points Immich at the new empty folder (nothing gets deleted, it just won't auto-move the old ones) — so tell me if you've got photos in there already and I'll walk you through moving them first. Either way, you're unblocked.

tomspark wrote:

One important add to my note above, Joe — and this lines up with what Tom just posted on your original Immich thread: run sudo sparkbox upgrade FIRST. That's the step that teaches Immich to actually use the PHOTOSPATH setting (it only shipped today, v1.6.209). Without upgrading first, editing the file does nothing — which is almost certainly what bit you last time. Then, since you want volume2 specifically: 1. sudo mkdir -p /volume2/data/photos 2. sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /volume2/data/photos 3. In /opt/sparkbox/.env set this line: PHOTOSPATH=/volume2/data/photos 4. sudo sparkbox up Your library's empty right now, so it just starts clean on volume2 — no symlink hack this time. Sorry again for the runaround on this one.

Chris wrote:

Thanks for reporting this: Immich stores the whole photo library on the system disk. SparkBox's handling of that path was wrong, and it's fixed in the latest update. Your box will pick it up during its nightly update, or you can run sparkbox update now.