I have backed up a huge library of 58k photos using the iOS app, in foreground mode. I had selected a couple of albums plus the "Recent" album. Now that all assets have been backed up, I can see them on the web app. So far so good.
The issue now is that I can only see the albums in the iOS app. They are exactly the ones that are in the Apple Photos app and I have the exact same albums in the iOS Immich app. However, the web app doesn't show any of these albums. It looks like they have not been copied over. For some reason, the iOS app still sees them (I guess it's a local cache?).
Is there any way to get these albums (the names + linked photos) captured on the server somehow? Could this be a bug or do you think it's by design?
The OS that Immich Server is running on
Ubuntu 24.04
Version of Immich Server
v1.109.2
Version of Immich Mobile App
v1.109.0 build.164
Platform with the issue
[X] Server
[X] Web
[ ] Mobile
Your docker-compose.yml content
name: immich
services:
immich-server:
container_name: immich_server
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
extends:
file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
service: quicksync # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
volumes:
- ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
- ${EXTERNAL_PATH1}:/usr/src/app/external/Aperture
- ${EXTERNAL_PATH2}:/usr/src/app/external/Lightroom
- ${EXTERNAL_PATH3}:/usr/src/app/external/Newer
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
env_file:
- .env
ports:
- 2283:3001
depends_on:
- redis
- database
restart: no
immich-machine-learning:
container_name: immich_machine_learning
# For hardware acceleration, add one of -[armnn, cuda, openvino] to the image tag.
# Example tag: ${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}-cuda
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
# extends: # uncomment this section for hardware acceleration - see https://immich.app/docs/features/ml-hardware-acceleration
# file: hwaccel.ml.yml
# service: cpu # set to one of [armnn, cuda, openvino, openvino-wsl] for accelerated inference - use the `-wsl` version for WSL2 where applicable
volumes:
- model-cache:/cache
env_file:
- .env
restart: no
redis:
container_name: immich_redis
image: docker.io/redis:6.2-alpine@sha256:d6c2911ac51b289db208767581a5d154544f2b2fe4914ea5056443f62dc6e900
healthcheck:
test: redis-cli ping || exit 1
restart: unless-stopped
database:
container_name: immich_postgres
image: docker.io/tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0@sha256:90724186f0a3517cf6914295b5ab410db9ce23190a2d9d0b9dd6463e3fa298f0
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: --data-checksums
volumes:
- ${DB_DATA_LOCATION}:/var/lib/postgresql/data
healthcheck:
test: pg_isready --dbname='${DB_DATABASE_NAME}' || exit 1; Chksum="$$(psql
--dbname='${DB_DATABASE_NAME}' --username='${DB_USERNAME}' --tuples-only
--no-align --command='SELECT COALESCE(SUM(checksum_failures), 0) FROM
pg_stat_database')"; echo "checksum failure count is $$Chksum"; [
"$$Chksum" = '0' ] || exit 1
interval: 5m
start_interval: 30s
start_period: 5m
command:
- postgres
- -c
- shared_preload_libraries=vectors.so
- -c
- search_path="$$user", public, vectors
- -c
- logging_collector=on
- -c
- max_wal_size=2GB
- -c
- shared_buffers=512MB
- -c
- wal_compression=on
restart: no
volumes:
model-cache: null
networks: {}
Your .env content
# You can find documentation for all the supported env variables at https://immich.app/docs/install/environment-variables
EXTERNAL_PATH1=/home/andre/Pictures/Aperture
EXTERNAL_PATH2=/home/andre/Pictures/Lightroom
EXTERNAL_PATH3=/home/andre/Pictures/Newer
# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/home/andre/Pictures/Immich/upload
# The location where your database files are stored
DB_DATA_LOCATION=/home/andre/Pictures/Immich/postgres
# To set a timezone, uncomment the next line and change Etc/UTC to a TZ identifier from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
# TZ=Etc/UTC
# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=release
# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
DB_PASSWORD=******
# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich
Reproduction steps
1. Select 2 or more albums in the iOS app plus the album "Recent" to be backed up
2. Run the backup (I did it in foreground more)
3. Once backup is finished, check the albums in the iOS Immich app and the albums on web (or on the server)
4. The albums do not exist on the server (or the web app doesn't show them)
Relevant log output
No response
Additional information
I guess if I'd know where the albums are I could try to query the DB to check whether they exist there or not. What table is relevant?
The bug
I have backed up a huge library of 58k photos using the iOS app, in foreground mode. I had selected a couple of albums plus the "Recent" album. Now that all assets have been backed up, I can see them on the web app. So far so good.
The issue now is that I can only see the albums in the iOS app. They are exactly the ones that are in the Apple Photos app and I have the exact same albums in the iOS Immich app. However, the web app doesn't show any of these albums. It looks like they have not been copied over. For some reason, the iOS app still sees them (I guess it's a local cache?).
Is there any way to get these albums (the names + linked photos) captured on the server somehow? Could this be a bug or do you think it's by design?
The OS that Immich Server is running on
Ubuntu 24.04
Version of Immich Server
v1.109.2
Version of Immich Mobile App
v1.109.0 build.164
Platform with the issue
Your docker-compose.yml content
Your .env content
Reproduction steps
Relevant log output
No response
Additional information
I guess if I'd know where the albums are I could try to query the DB to check whether they exist there or not. What table is relevant?