[poisonborz]

I wish they would better support external image sources - images not uploaded/managed by Immich, just a folder of images it has access to - especially if it's read only. It mostly works, but the UI and logic breaks in a lot of little ways.

[etnoy]

We know, and it's something we're working on. The plan is to unify the external and internal libraries in a better way

[neogodless]

Yup. I love Immich, but I'm also a control freak, so my 25 years of digital photos I had before using Immich still exist in an External Library. It mostly works but I still have some issues. Like I keep getting a batch of ~70 photos that lose their "date taken" and revert to the date/time I started using Immich. (Fortunately the file names are date/times and I can manually go through and fix them, but having done it at least three times, it's getting old!)

I "restarted" maybe twice when I first got into Immich to find a good set up for playing reasonably nicely with external libraries, but it does need just a bit more polish. Good to see a sibling comment that it's on their list of priorities!

Hackers

The coolest thing I've done with Immich is just set up Docker on a more powerful machine, run the machine learning libraries, and point my instance (on a low powered server) to use that external computing for face recognition and OCR. Very cool!