Steps to configure Immich to store user data into Synology NAS homes folder

[jaimetur]

1. Create a Synology user (let's asume the user created have been named 'username'

2. Create a folder Structure in your Synology NAS within the /volume1/homes/username like this:

   /volume1/homes/username/Immich
   /volume1/homes/username/Immich/upload
   /volume1/homes/username/Immich/library
   /volume1/homes/username/Immich/thumbs
   /volume1/homes/username/Immich/encoded-video

3. Create a new user on Immich and make sure that you assign the username as storage label

4. Modify your docker-compose.yml to include the following lines withiin the services immich-server and immich-microservices (if used):

   volumes:
   - /volume1/homes/username/Immich/upload:/usr/src/app/upload/upload/username
   - /volume1/homes/username/Immich/library:/usr/src/app/upload/library/username
   - /volume1/homes/username/Immich/thumbs:/usr/src/app/upload/thumbs/username
   - /volume1/homes/username/Immich/encoded-video:/usr/src/app/upload/encoded-video/username

5. Recreate the docker and relaunch it

You have to do those steps per each new user that you want to create on Immich.

It would be much easier if Immich dev team could change the storage folder structure to a user level structure, I mean create one folder per user under /usr/src/app/upload like this:

  /usr/src/app/upload/username1/upload
  /usr/src/app/upload/username1/library
  /usr/src/app/upload/username1/thumbs
  /usr/src/app/upload/username1/encoded-video

  /usr/src/app/upload/username2/upload
  /usr/src/app/upload/username2/library
  /usr/src/app/upload/username2/thumbs
  /usr/src/app/upload/username2/encoded-video

In that way, we should only map one volume per user like this:

  volumes:
        - /volume1/homes/username1/Immich/upload:/usr/src/app/upload/username1
        - /volume1/homes/username2/Immich/upload:/usr/src/app/upload/username2

And even more clear if the main storage data could be rename to /usr/src/app/storage_data instead of /usr/src/app/upload since it is a bit confusing because that folder does not only cotains upload data, but also thumbs, encoded-video, library, and database backups.