Which app for organize private photo's and video's on smb share

Apps and Virtualization
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Hi,

i just have a qestion about private media organize apps.
I want to organize my photo’s and video’s with an ap like Photoprism or Immich. The private photo’s are videos are stored on an smb share on my TrueNAS (Scale, latest version) and are currently in a structure of folders with year and folders with month.

I tried apps like Photoprism, Immich or Jellyfin but i didn’t get access to the already stored photos…

Thanks

StefanV3

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Hello @StefanV3,

You mention that your media is already organized in a year and month folder structure, yet you are looking for organization. It would help if you offer some more details as to what is it exactly you are looking to achieve and maybe even more on how the media is currently structure, precisely.

Immich could definitely do this for you, if you configure it right. There are multiple ways to achieve this with Immich.

  1. You could use an “External Library”, as they call it.
  2. You could simply create a Dataset in TrueNAS with permissions for you to also browse, because the default instructions make it such that you cannot browse the data once it is imported into Immich.

There are more details to get into, but we’d first need to hear more about what your current state is and what your desired end state is, as well.

Cheers!

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  1. If they are not already in a Dataset of their own, move your photos into a new dataset.

  2. In addition to any ACL that dataset needs for you to access it over SMB, give access to it to the users or groups that the apps you want to have access run under. To make life easy you may want to create a group that you give access to and then add the userids you want to the group.

  3. In the app definition, add a HostPath to make the dataset visible to the virtual file system that Docker or Kubernetes uses.

Your media should then be visible from inside the app.