A guide to installing Immich to a different location

[jan]

Hi,

I have followed every single HowTo I could find and started from scratch multiple time yet I still can’t get a working Immich to run with a modified storage location.

Immich initially running fine.
Then I changed the path in “ImmIch Server” as per screenshot - and yet still now Immich won’t start up any more. I put the original settings back - works fine.

I tried this for both Immich versions (from “Gallery” as well as from “BigBear”)
(which one is going to be supported long-term? I don’t want to be stuck on something that won’t get updates)

I also tried using the “migrate”-function - but it appears that that is a global setting, meaning: all apps data is migrated combined.
That’s not what I intended.

Again: guys, how did you solve this? After changing the one path to the directory, whjat did you to to make immich start up again?

[tmyllaeri]

I was also facing the same issue and tried the steps described here.

After dozens of attempts I finally got one configuration working: “Gallery” version of immich app. Choose “Custom install“ and then change ALL of the image paths to the custom location instead of just changing the path in immich_server tab. Note that if your custom path is "/media/immich/” then the other image volume paths probably need to keep the original subdirectories, so for example database tab volume should be "/media/immich/pgdata”. Also I tried this for already installed immich and it didnt work so you need to uninstall and set these in the custom install step

Not sure about stability or proper functioning yet, but at least it launches