Missing albums

[carlosjfcasero]

Hi! I'm facing an issue when trying to dry-run album creation. The folder I'm trying to scan contains following structure:

drwxr-xr-x 30 www-data www-data   4096 Feb 18  2023  2015
drwxr-xr-x 59 www-data www-data   4096 Feb 18  2023  2016
drwxr-xr-x 38 www-data www-data   4096 Feb 18  2023  2017
drwxr-xr-x 55 www-data www-data   4096 Feb 18  2023  2018
drwxr-xr-x 81 www-data www-data   4096 Feb 17  2023  2019
drwxr-xr-x 54 www-data www-data   4096 Feb 17  2023  2020
drwxr-xr-x 78 www-data www-data   4096 Jun 11  2023  2021
drwxr-xr-x 73 www-data www-data   4096 Jun 11  2023  2022
drwxr-xr-x 26 www-data www-data   4096 Aug 14 15:25  2023
drwxrwxr-x 14 www-data www-data   4096 Aug 16 12:09  2024
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data   4096 Apr 16 23:56  Álbumes
drwxr-xr-x 29 www-data www-data   4096 Mar  2  2023  Carlos
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data   4096 Feb 17  2023 'Concierto de Navidad'
drwxr-xr-x  8 www-data www-data   4096 Feb 18  2023  Paula
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data   4096 Jun 29 21:53  Revisar
-rwxr-xr-x  1 www-data www-data 600716 Apr 28  2021  Screenshot_20190716_090847_com.whatsapp.jpg
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data   4096 Jun 24 11:35  Uploaded

and 2015 folder has 27 folders (with images inside) and 1 image.

When running following command docker run -e API_URL="https://tld/api" -e API_KEY="XXX" -e ROOT_PATH="/usr/src/app/nextcloud" -e ALBUM_LEVELS="2" -e IGNORE="2017" -e LOG_LEVEL="DEBUG" salvoxia/immich-folder-album-creator:latest /script/immich_auto_album.sh I'm getting following albums (just showing the ones with errors):

time=2024-09-04T14:07:01.501+00:00 level=INFO msg=469 albums identified
time=2024-09-04T14:07:01.501+00:00 level=INFO msg=Album list: ['2015 Carlos', '2015 Nochevieja', '2015 Varios (de Carlos)', '2015 new born Carlitos', '2016', ...

I can see two issues here:

• "2015" album is not created (although "2016" is)
• Just 3 "2015..." albums has been created ignoring the 27 folders inside "2015" folder.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Salvoxia]

Hi,

nothing obviously wrong that I can see. From the top of my head I can think of the following explanations:

• The string 2017 is contained in subfolders and/or file names below 2015, and thus ignored (unlikely?)
• For some reason Immich has not imported the missing files and thus does not report them to the script (perhaps?) (external library exclusion patterns in Scan settings)
• The "missing images" (that would have created the missing album names) are already part of an album. The script only requests images from the API that are not already part of an album as of script version 0.6.0

Can you please check if any of these points might apply?

Best Regards, Salvoxia

[carlosjfcasero]

Hi @Salvoxia. That was exactly my problem. I previously ran the script with album_level=1 so an album called "2015" was already created. I deleted that album and new albums were created. Thanks a lot!

[carlosjfcasero]

I was just wondering if an enhancement could be done to allow same image to be part of two albums. For example, for the root path /a/b, --album_level=1 --allow_duplicates=true, it would be nice to have an album 'a' with 'a' elements together with 'b' elements and another 'b' album just with 'b' elements

[Salvoxia]

Absolutely possible. You would have to run the script with different combinations of root_path, and --album-levels when specifying --allow-duplicates. Example:

/external_libs/photos/A/1.jpg
/external_libs/photos/A/B/2.jpg

Running with root_path = /external_libs/photos and --album-levels = 1 would create an album

Album A
 - 1.jpg
 - 2.jpg

After that, running with root_path = /external_libs/photos and --album-levels = 2 and --alow-duplicates = true would create then create the following album:

Album A B
 - 2.jpg

It would also create Album A with 1.jpg, but since Album A already exists an 1.jpg is already assigned to it, nothing changes here.

Is that would you mean?

[carlosjfcasero]

That's exactly what I mean! Just to confirm, right now it's not possible due to technical limitations, it would be needed a PR, right?

[Salvoxia]

That's correct. A PR is welcome, otherwise I'll implement it myself :)

[carlosjfcasero]

I'm afraid I don't know how to do it in Python, sorry 😢

[Salvoxia]

Implemented in #43 and available in the latest Docker image. Will be included in the next release.

[Salvoxia]

Released with version 0.10.0.

[carlosjfcasero]

Thank you so much!