Bulk Import Behaviour
Hello, I've setup Immich and have been testing its sync feature and also for storing photos in general, so far I am very happy with it.
I initially planned to import all of my photos from various source that has been for the most part disorganized from the multiple backups I have, so I imported most of them using the docker image and the bulk import feature.
I would like to know how does Immich detect that it already has a certain picture in its database? for instance, one time I tried to import a directory, which after immich indexes, contains 16k items, however immich only wants to import 2k of them, I assume this is because immich knows that the other 14k, it already has inside of its database?. So for this instance I imported that 2k pictures, and then I reran the same command to import the same directory, and once again immich finds 2k pictures it can import, I didn't use the
--delete flag so obviously the previously imported files are not yet deleted, but in this case shouldn't immich not want to import anything as I have just imported the pictures from that directory (i.e. immich should now know it already has those pictures)?
now, puzzled by this behaviour, I triggered a dry run on my backup program which is meant to backup incrementally, however it also does not detect any new files on the immich directory.
TL:DR
How does immich know what to import (i.e. what it has and what it does not yet have), and why after importing from a certain directory (without deleting), rerunning the same import command will tell that immich will import the same amount of image as well
Thank you 🙇1 Reply
Hi there, I have this issue as well and it seems to be part of how duplicates are returned when using the cli upload tool.
There are other threads about the same issue
https://discord.com/channels/979116623879368755/1152993259052879922/1155905970606706750
https://discord.com/channels/979116623879368755/1154855317474127956
This one has a fix I think, but hasnt been released yet https://discord.com/channels/979116623879368755/1109830963065786378