View 'local photos' from within Immich #2266
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It is currently possible, however Immich will only show local photos in the album that you select to be uploaded |
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I'll just add that it is possible, but the way to accomplish it is not obvious. If you go to the backup screen, then album selection, you can click the picture icon in the right to view the photos in the album. I like the Google photos navigation better myself. |
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I often encounter the issue for the following workflow:
I generally don't want to backup screenshots since they are mostly temporary images that I want to share. I can therefore not find them in the "Albums on Device" section of immich. Any particular reason to not show all albums instead of only the ones selected for upload? It could even be a separate section in the "Library" page. |
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I'm currently running into an issue where I want to auto backup all my camara roll items and only selectively upload my WhatsApp images and videos, but this isn't possible since the the albums that you select for backup on the backup screen is directly tied to what albums show up in the Timeline and There are some items from my "WhatsApp Images" and "WhatsApp Videos" albums that I don't want to backup so to be able to selectively back them up I have to select those albums in the backup screen so that they will show up in the Timeline, then this allows me to selectively upload only the items I want. The issue with this is that now I can't easily backup/auto-backup entire albums any more, like my Camera roll, since the WhatsApp albums are currently selected on the backup screen. It would be nice to have separate configurations for what albums show up in the timeline and what albums you want backed up. |
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What do you mean @JordyEGNL ? It is already possible on mobile app. |
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The Google Photos app shows way more folders, such as WhatsApp Images, WhatsApp Videos, Screenshots, Infinity and Telegram. Btw I am talking about the Library screen and not the Backup Albums screen. |
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As you can see in the screenshots below, Google Photos shows all the folders with images in them, and Immich only shows folders within the folder Pictures and DCIM. It is very common for me to search a picture in the Whatsapp Images folder, These are located in the app folder in /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media.
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Right so Immich has lack of browsable local folders? |
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Yeah, it doesn't seem to search every folder with images in them |
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@JordyEGNL Do you know anything new about this? I'm starting to use Immich and I can't uninstall my old gallery because I need it to explore the local image folders that I don't have in backup |
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Immich does not support this feature at this time, thanks for understanding. |
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Is there any update on this ? this is a much needed feature. One would not want to upload everything. Having to use a separate gallery app just to view local photos is quite inconvenient |
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Since v1.107.0 which has been released yesterday, all local photos are displayed in the timeline. Including those that are not in an directory selected to be backed up. |
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Sorry for the misinformation, it seems like the change has been reverted in v1.107.1. They are working on it though! |
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any idea why it got reverted? |
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Is there any news on this? It is an extremely important feature and without it I have to use another application to manage the local files. So it's very difficult to stop using the other commercial services as I don't want to have 2 or 3 apps for a basic function which is to view local photos without having to back them all up But only the folders of interest like camera etc. |
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My immich server instance was not available due to an issue (which was unrelated to immich itself). Unfortunately i was on vacation and with that AFK for more than a week to fix the server configuration in my home lab. That circumstance brought the downside, that on my mobile phone (Android), i was not able to use immich as "default image viewer" to see the recent pictures i've taken with the camera. This leads to two different questions:
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any news about that? The last reply is a little old. |
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This would be a pretty nice addition to finally allow me to degoogle from google photos. The lack of this feature in immich, makes me open google photos every time I download some image from an app, or take a screenshot... |
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Immich is a wonderful piece of software but in this regard it still falls short. (Basic) Local photo management is imho a must. Let me explain with an example. I've just quit WhatsApp but kept the image folder. A lot of images are jokes, etc and can be deleted but there are also images I want to keep. Because Immich doesn't do locals I need another app to select and sort this out. |
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As stated by others, I second this. |
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Are there any blockers on this that need addressing? I was unable to find any related Issues, PRs, or action items within the Projects tab. If the maintainer team is interested in adding this but needs some help, please reply and let me know where work needs to get started/improved. Eager to help where I can. |
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This is addressed in #19370 as well. Implemented, just need beta testing to roll out |
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Can we help beta test? Since it's only mobile-app changes I'd be happy to run that on my phone to help test its stability. |
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Make it possible to view local photos, that are not backed up by Immich.
Now you need to open your phones Gallery app for that.
Google Photos also has this feature under, Library > Photos on device > view all.
From here you can also enable backups for a particular folder.
Would be cool to also have this feature in Immich!
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