Photoprism: Which Storage to use to have all my photos at installation?

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Hello,

I am trying to install Photoprism on my Truenas Scale Dragonfish-24.04.1.1. I already have a dataset with all my pictures in it. What I’m trying to do is that at the installation, Photoprism detect all my pictures.

I already managed to that feat on Pi Gallery 2 by setting the storage as the Host Path of my Dataset and I’d like to the same for Photoprism.

Problem is that Photoprism has 3 storage folders (import storage, storage and originals storage).

Should I use any of those storage or add a additionnal storage configuration? Thanks

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This One, then perform an indexing.
Depending on how big Is your collection, It can take a while… I suggest you to scan a folder at time

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Thanks it worked, I see all my pictures.

Makes me wonder though, If I add another picture in my folder, will Photoprism be able to auto-detect new pictures in my folder or will I have to index it again?

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According to documentation, yes.
If you have an older version you can workaround that limit easily with a custom crontab.
Its a bit i don’t use photoprism but Is a really good app

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Not to hijack your thread, but are you using the Photoprism from the Truenas Discover Apps thread or the docker? Did you have to do anything special during the install?

I couldn’t get the Truenas one to install and I am wondering what I am doing wrong; it just hangs on deployment forever. Its particularly sensitive to the Originals folder, When I select an originals folder that is NOT the IX software default, it just hangs. Its not a permissions issue because I created a chmod 777 folder just for this use case and nada.

The docker one works perfectly but I prefer the Truenas Apps one for easier management going forward. Just curious what kind of wizardry you emmployed…

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Yes, I’ve managed to install the one from the Truenas charts. What I did was :

  • Didn’t put a site URL
  • Didn’t check public
  • Added a password
  • No certificate
  • Default port
  • Manually added the host path where I have all my photos in “Photoprism Originals Storage”
  • Didn’t touch the other 2 storages
  • No GPU

Then I did an indexing inside the app to see all my photos.

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Hi Gamix.
I trried everything and only got it working via using a docker version of Photoprism.
Can I ask you a dumb question? What do you type EXACTLY into the “Photoprism Originals Storage” file path.

My photo location is from a smb share that works 100% for EVERY other Truenas application is “/mnt/tank/media/Photos” That is 100% correct and every tom, dick and harry has full 100% read, write, execute access to this folder (root, nobody, apps, group nobody, group apps, etc. etc.)

Still doesn’t see anything via upload.

The docker version works great with this path location, but the Truecharts version is no bueno.

Must be something simple, but I give up.

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I don’t remember. I went to Pigallery2 but I’ve put the path of the photos, so /mnt/Alpha/Photos. Does your datasets has rights for apps (568) ? If it does then you need to go in settings and launch a manual index