Sharing external library between users #7780
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Just come to ask for this feature myself and found this discussion. Support request. I want all users (actually family members) have access to one big "common" library, so it's content will appear on their timelines and memories, and users can use search feature. Right now the problem is that every library should be owned only by one of users and photo placed in this library available only for this user. I tried to bypass this by creating libraries with the same external path for each user. This almost work, but in this case Immich create copy of cache data for each user and waste a bunch of disk space. Thinking about possible realization I can imagine two ways. Most obvious is ability to create "no owner" external library, available for all users. Or, more flexible, ablility to set additional users for regular owned external library. Of course finally this is up for devs, if they decide to implement it. BTW, almost the same request also here #7362. |
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I'm just going to add my thoughts here as well. I'm moving from Synology to TrueNAS, and as a result am moving my photo library over to Immich. I have a lot of photos already, and I'd like to be able to add them as an external library, but give all of my users (my wife and kids) view access to that external library while still keeping their own individual libraries for cell phone backup. I don't see a way to do this currently without making individual external libraries for each user and adding the same photo folder in each of them - basically duplicating the external library for each user. If that library were duplicated, I don't think all of the face recognition would persist between each library. If we could just have one external library and have it shared between users, they could help match the faces and whatnot. Also, great project so far. I'm really liking Immich in general. Thanks. |
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My use case is a shared samba folder with pictures, which I'd to like to integrate in Immich and share with multiple users, without duplicating all thumbnails and database entries. I wonder if this functionality could replace partner sharing, because sharing a users' upload library has the same effect as partner sharing? |
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I would also like this feature, and am considering contributing. Does anyone know what limitations or design philosophies currently exist in the code base that prevent this from happening? |
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Duplicate of #7362 as mentioned above, thank you. |
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Please, implement the sharing external library between users feature
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