Docker UPLOAD_LOCATION env variable

[jerkelens]

Hi,

Sorry for the many edits, I can't get code-blocks to parse properly...
Docker is running on my NAS and I have 2 storage pools;

1. RAID6 - generic storage
2. 2TB SSD - high speed docker, vm, etc.

I have immich running on pool 2, as a result all mobile immich uploads end up in ./library/uploads. However, I want to move these uploads to my other storage pool. I've searched the internet and this forum, and I found workarounds, but no real solution imho. I tried different setting in both docker_compose and the .env file, but I cannot for the life of me get this to work. Sorry, I'm pretty new to this .env impact. In my compose file I have:

    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
      < more data here >

As the comment states, I cannot change that particular line, so I edited the .env file:

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/volume1/media/uploads

This errors out as follows:

immich_server            | /usr/src/app/server/dist/services/storage.service.js:130
immich_server            |             throw new misc_1.ImmichStartupError(`Failed to read: "${externalPath} (${internalPath}) - ${docsMessage}"`);
immich_server            |                   ^
immich_server            | 
immich_server            | ImmichStartupError: Failed to read: "<UPLOAD_LOCATION>/encoded-video/.immich (/data/encoded-video/.immich) - Please see https://docs.immich.app/administration/system-integrity#folder-checks for more information."
immich_server            |     at StorageService.verifyReadAccess (/usr/src/app/server/dist/services/storage.service.js:130:19)
immich_server            |     at async /usr/src/app/server/dist/services/storage.service.js:57:21
immich_server            |     at async /usr/src/app/server/dist/repositories/database.repository.js:392:27
immich_server            |     at async /usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/kysely@0.28.11/node_modules/kysely/dist/cjs/kysely.js:541:20
immich_server            |     at async DefaultConnectionProvider.provideConnection (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/kysely@0.28.11/node_modules/kysely/dist/cjs/driver/default-connection-provider.js:12:20)
immich_server            |     at async /usr/src/app/server/dist/repositories/database.repository.js:389:13
immich_server            | 
immich_server            | Node.js v24.14.1

immich_server            | api worker exited with code 1```

I also tried to mount an additional path in the compose as follows:

      - /volume1/Media:/MyUploads
/volume1/Media is obviously accessible by my NAS.

And then use the .env-file to set the UPLOAD_LOCATION variable to:
./MyUploads

Redeploy this bunch, leads to the same error. 
I then tried to create the mentioned folder 'encoded-video' in the NAS mounted location, but this doesn't change a thing to the error.

Changing the UPLOAD_LOCATION to the local folder, ./library instantly fixes the error, but then again, I'm back at square one; uploaded files are placed on my wrong storage pool.

Really looking to understand why docker volumes aren't working as expected, and obviously some help to get this to work?
Thanks!