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jonaswinkler / paperless-ng

A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
https://paperless-ng.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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[Feature Request] Allow RO source folder for Consume #1508

Open Webreaper opened 2 years ago

Webreaper commented 2 years ago

I currently have a folder on my NAS which has all of my documents etc in it; I dump stuff in there, in the right folder structure, from my laptop, and it all gets backed up to B2 etc.

I'd really like to use this as the source folder for Paperless-ng to consume from. However, I absolutely don't want the files in there to be altered, moved or deleted. So what I'd really like to do is set up a read-only consume folder, where Paperless picks up new or altered files, and consumes them as normal, but leaving them alone rather than the usual behaviour of moving/deleting them after consumption.

I gather from a reddit thread that this isn't possible, because if I start up my docker container with the consume folder mount set to RO, Paperless won't start.

Is this something that can be configured or added as a new feature?

AIndoria commented 2 years ago

A year later, is this a thing yet? I too have a well structured Documents folder that I'd like to keep, and use paperless as a backup/search tool with tags.