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…