[Feature]: Separate settings for Thumbnail and Original photo storage locations in .env file

[jammin1911]

Feature detail

Separate storage path specification in .env for where to store thumbnails (fast ssd or other local storage) and original photos (slow/less expensive storage or cloud drive).

Platform

Server

[dhruvinsh]

Yes this would be good feature, A homeserver like unraid would definately benifit from it. Main user media (original photos) stays on array (or raid/nas drive) nad thumbnails stays on the some cache (usually faster SSD) folder.

[panoti]

Hi guys, let me close this feature issue because of #488 (comment). If there is anyone really need this feature, you can use my images ghcr.io/panoti/immich/backend:latest and ghcr.io/panoti/immich/ml-worker:latest for workaround, thanks all.

[alextran1502]

@panoti it was the implementation of the PR. I would still like to have this though

[panoti]

@alextran1502 really? I'll wait for the better implementation.

[jesvinjoachim]

any progress on this?

[jesvinjoachim]

we already have the folder structure(sorting images by date and month for images as a specific folder ) and it seems, we can do this on the same ui page itself. i manually tried the path of the thumb and it works flawlessly .. on a previous version.

[bo0tzz]

Added by #2047

[klejejs]

@bo0tzz Is there any documentation on how this could be applied in deployment? Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything.

[bo0tzz]

There's not really any documentation. You would just mount the different folders to different storage depending on your needs.