immich-app
Folder view sorts months alphabetically
The bug
I enabled Folder View in my account and months are now sorted alphabetically - all years start with April and end with September. When I choose months as numbers - first numbers are 10 , 11 and 12, then 01, 02...
The OS that Immich Server is running on
Fedora 40
Version of Immich Server
1.117.0
Version of Immich Mobile App
1.116.1.build.161
Platform with the issue
- [ ] Server
- [X] Web
- [ ] Mobile
Your docker-compose.yml content
#
# WARNING: Make sure to use the docker-compose.yml of the current release:
#
# https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml
#
# The compose file on main may not be compatible with the latest release.
#
name: immich
services:
immich-server:
container_name: immich_server
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
extends:
file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
service: quicksync # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
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}:/usr/src/app/upload
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
env_file:
- .env
ports:
- 2283:3001
depends_on:
- redis
- database
restart: always
healthcheck:
disable: false
immich-machine-learning:
container_name: immich_machine_learning
# For hardware acceleration, add one of -[armnn, cuda, openvino] to the image tag.
# Example tag: ${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}-cuda
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
extends: # uncomment this section for hardware acceleration - see https://immich.app/docs/features/ml-hardware-acceleration
file: hwaccel.ml.yml
service: openvino # set to one of [armnn, cuda, openvino, openvino-wsl] for accelerated inference - use the `-wsl` version for WSL2 where applicable
volumes:
- model-cache:/cache
env_file:
- .env
restart: always
healthcheck:
disable: false
redis:
container_name: immich_redis
image: docker.io/redis:6.2-alpine@sha256:2d1463258f2764328496376f5d965f20c6a67f66ea2b06dc42af351f75248792
healthcheck:
test: redis-cli ping || exit 1
restart: always
database:
container_name: immich_postgres
image: docker.io/tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0@sha256:90724186f0a3517cf6914295b5ab410db9ce23190a2d9d0b9dd6463e3fa298f0
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: '--data-checksums'
volumes:
# Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the database storage location on your system, edit the value of DB_DATA_LOCATION in the .env file
- ${DB_DATA_LOCATION}:/var/lib/postgresql/data
healthcheck:
test: pg_isready --dbname='${DB_DATABASE_NAME}' --username='${DB_USERNAME}' || exit 1; Chksum="$$(psql --dbname='${DB_DATABASE_NAME}' --username='${DB_USERNAME}' --tuples-only --no-align --command='SELECT COALESCE(SUM(checksum_failures), 0) FROM pg_stat_database')"; echo "checksum failure count is $$Chksum"; [ "$$Chksum" = '0' ] || exit 1
interval: 5m
start_interval: 30s
start_period: 5m
command: ["postgres", "-c", "shared_preload_libraries=vectors.so", "-c", 'search_path="$$user", public, vectors', "-c", "logging_collector=on", "-c", "max_wal_size=2GB", "-c", "shared_buffers=512MB", "-c", "wal_compression=on"]
restart: always
volumes:
model-cache:
Your .env content
# You can find documentation for all the supported env variables at https://immich.app/docs/install/environment-variables
# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/opt/immich/library
# The location where your database files are stored
DB_DATA_LOCATION=/opt/immich/postgres
# To set a timezone, uncomment the next line and change Etc/UTC to a TZ identifier from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
# TZ=Etc/UTC
# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=v1.117.0
# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
# Please use only the characters `A-Za-z0-9`, without special characters or spaces
DB_PASSWORD=**********
# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich
Reproduction steps
- Enable "Storage Template" in admin settings
- Choose a preset that includes "month" as a number or as a word
- Run "Storage migration" job
- Check "Folders" item on top left menu
Relevant log output
No response
Additional information
No response
I'd say that's the correct outcome. The folder (or rather: directory) names don't have any specific semantics, "April" could be the month or a name, and you might have names that are different than that. If you want to sort by date, use the other views.
I agree for the month names, but I think the numbers should be sorted with a numeric collation.
I would like to see folders that start with numbers (specifically leading zeros) treated with numerical collation rather than alphabetical, or at least be given the option in folder view on how to sort, in order to take this type of folder structure into account. My external library consists of nested folders representing the year, month, and day, with leading zeros for the months and days that contain only single digits. This was the default folder organization for the very widely used commercial photo software I've been using, and is the organizational structure that I prefer, so I'd imagine there are other users who have external libraries organized in a similar fashion.
Sorry for closing this earlier, I assumed that some sorting already happens and that you wanted to sort "February" before "April" - which is tricky for the reasons already stated. I just submitted a pull request that, at least, implements basic sorting, so that you can use numerical prefixes. 0 comes before 1, 01 comes before 02, etc.