[Feature] Folder view #5409
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I have the same use case, I used this script in order to create albums for each of my directories from my external library |
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A must have feature is the only one stopping me to move from photoprism to immich. |
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I was searching also for a solution to create a Folder and put multiple Album in it. wedding
Have a nice day and happy new Year. |
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I have extensive external library carefully arranged over 20+ years into folders, which are albums, and it would be a very useful frature if Immich could automatically show them as albums. |
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This is absolutely essential. I really wish developers of self hosted photos apps would stop trying to replicate google photos. A more useful reference would be something like the old picasa software. |
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A folder view is likely essential or highly useful for anyone serious about photography. We're talking about people willing to self host a solution for managing their photos. So who is immich for, my grandmother? Teenage girls? Overly sensitive collaborators? What's wrong with building a tool for your demographic? As @pin147 mentioned immich now has external folder support. Clearly immich users have photos organized by folder, & they aren't willing to change organizational habits to work around immich short comings.
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No need for a real "folder view", it would be already a great starting point if immich could create albums from existing folders in external libraries! That should be much easier to implement i guess? |
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All my photos are organised in folder structures and that was really important when I realised, that EXIF Data of many photos was changed badly. Wish Folder view too! |
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I second this request. I think that most people who take a lot of photos and care about showing more than the most recent ones, tend to organize things hierarchically. This addition would make Immich much less limited. |
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Oh I also had a thought about folder view over virtual album concept, but this feature was already requested here. |
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Synology Photos lets you alternate between Folder View and Timeline View |
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The synology solution would be the best in my use case |
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Until this feature gets consideration from the developer and is in the development roadmap, what kind of workaround has been in place and has worked well so far? Could I get few pointers? Thanks! |
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From an implementation point of view, the asset path in the database would need to be split into directory and filename. We want to be able to query the directory in order to find assets in that directory. We do need to get hit the database to get the asset information such as thumbnail location and can't just list the files directly from the file system. We should also check relative vs absolute path (uploads may use relative path while external libs use absolute path?) |
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The Concept
Examples
The Memories app for Nextcloud
https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/folders
Synologys Photos offers probably the most user-friendly experience with a simple button to toggle between folder or timeline view - https://demo.synology.com/en-uk:
Usecase
If you edit many photos in Photoshop or w/e, you need to manually add the correct date to take advantage of the timeline.
With a folder view, you can simply access the photos using your own structure.
Many users have photos split into two parts:
The Memories app for Nextcloud is the perfect example of how useful the folder view is in such cases.
Since immich offers external storage support now, the option to have a folder view seems like the next logical step. It is the only thing holding many users from migrating everything to immich.
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