[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 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/488#issuecomment-1242629107. 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 by date and month ) and its seems, we can do it on the code logic.