I have a family immich instance self-hosted. All pics from my kids devices are auto-uploaded on our instance. This is nice, but also updates a lot of photos and videos of they kidding and joking, ando lot of repeated stuff. Immich only allows that I exclude my own stuff, and it’s really boring have to login with each account to exclude my kids stuff. Is there anyway that I can manage and exclude photos and videos of other users?
I run a separate photoprism service with the master photo library. Immich is the entry point. I have a cron job that rsyncs all photos over to Photoprism’s mount point. Since it’s a mastering app, it has a lot better keyboard navigation and features for separating our the wheat from the chaff.
Long-time immich user here, similar problem. The issue (for now) is that only the owner of the media has write access. With partner sharing, all you can do is read the media (and add them to albums).
What I do for now with “trash media” (e.g. photos of receipts and other stuff that one snaps pics of for practical reasons and then forgets): I add my partner’s trash to an album named “please delete”. I periodically ask them to go through it and remove anything they want to keep, then have them select and delete everything in that album in batch.
Why this may not be practical for you, OP: you have two “trash producers”, so you’d have to keep a “trash” album for each of them (and sort trash media correctly). This is tedious work and error-prone: if you have only one pic in you “trash” album that your account does not own, selecting and deleting everything will fail, sending you on a hunt for the one misclassified picture in a batch of >200…
What immich may do about this in the future, as according to their roadmap: in the past, they were planning to add “more granular permissions controls”. Right now, they’ve renamed that to
User groups: Manage groups of users and share albums with a group
I hope this will include permissions management as well.
Wither way, the feature is likely to come with a greater overhaul of partner sharing. Partner sharing, as of now, is partly “broken” due to past design decisions: you can’t
- write to your partner’s files
- share facial recognition data: each one needs to classify people in their pictures individually (e.g. both need to tag “Uncle Fred” individually in their own accounts)
- share memories: only pictures owned by you will show up in memories, not your partner’s
And before anybody asks: no, there’s no ETA…
Soon
I am sure you can automate that using api keys.
Care to specify what you mean by “that”? It’s been a lot.
Just the 2nd paragraph.
Sounds like a request for immich 😉
I thought you as admin have delete access, you might just have to share the folder in “partners”?
Hmm theoretically, you could spin up a second Immich and mount the folders in there as external libraries with write permissions 🤔
This is just an idea which came to mind reading your post. But I would assume that messes with the metadata stored in your primary Immich instance or rather its DB. So probably not the best idea in hindsight. Also even easier approach to achieve this would be using a simple imager viewer tool directly on the filesystem 😅
I guess I could do it. But would be nice if immich had such a tool.