Issues with the Photos app - adding new folders

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Summary of the issue you are facing:

Photos app is so strange to configure when one wants to add external source folders. Their UI does not seem to see a folder I mapped from outside the container e.g. /var/www/html/data/myUser/files/Photos/External

I need to create in their UI and then I see it and can import the media. Tried to do the same with another external folder bound under /files/Photos/NewMedia but I see 404 errors in the photo viewer app - although it picks up the correct names of the files from that new folder.

How can I import multiple folders ?

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With such a big lack of information noone will be able to help you.

  • what Photo-App?
  • what OS?
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Default Photos app. Docker image.

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So you do use GIMP? GIMP is the default Photos app on my Linux-Notebook with xfce-Desktop. But other Linux-Distros with other Desktops may use a different Image Manipulation Program.

Hopefully, you realize that you have to be clear in describing what you are using and what problem you are dealing with.

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Sorry for the lacking response. I realized in the end that for external storage I needed to use a nextcloud “plugin” taht allows me to specify external folders, like webdav. End up using that.