• ahal@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    It definitely can, it’s called an “external library”. I just added my entire photo collection and use Immich as a frontend to view them all

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      5 months ago

      Can you view an external library using your own folder structure and not in a timeline display? I was under the impression Immich can’t do that, at least not without manually creating them all as separate albums or by using a script.

      Eg.

      I have photos from the last 30 years stored in this type of folder structure:

      2002

      • 2002-06-23 Mum’s birthday party — 2002-06-23 Mum’s birthday party-0001.TIF

      I’m less interested in using it for photo backup since I’d prefer not to use an automated tool since I curate everything in my library so that it stays organised - I’m looking for something for viewing/displaying and sharing.

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        5 months ago

        Ah, yeah I guess you can’t browse your photos using a file system view. I just meant that it won’t automatically reorganize your pictures on the file system.

        However you can create albums via an API call. You could probably write a script that adds each folder to an album or something.