I use the Memories app as a replacement for the default Photo app. And it’s great that for large folders it doesn’t peg my VPS as much as the default one !
Trying to understand terminology on it’s UI though. I use it with external storage (WebDav) and I only see 2 configurable paths: one is “Timeline path” and another “Folder path”.
What is the difference between these 2 ?
Can I only add in the app for viewing only 2 paths ?
Hi Marinca,
The two paths in the Memories app serve different purposes:
Timeline path: This is the folder (or folders) that Memories scans to build the chronological photo timeline, it looks for images, reads their metadata (EXIF timestamps), and shows them in the “Timeline” view.
Folder path: This defines which folder appears under the “Folders” section inside the app, basically the file browser view for your photos, without date-based sorting.
You can configure both to point to the same location if you want, or use different ones, for example:
Timeline path → /Photos/Camera Roll
Folder path → /Shared Albums
Right now, Memories lets you choose only one folder for each option, but all the subfolders inside it will be scanned automatically.
Ok, thanks does pointing that out. It would definitely be an improvement to have multiple folders support like the default Photos app although albums are more versatile.
What is a big downside for me is using external storage like WebDAV and not having thumbnails for videos. Is there a way to generate those directly on the external storage (as I understand fetching them for this purpose to the cloud box is indeed too much of an overhead)
Hi Marinca,
Yeah, you’re right, video thumbnails don’t generate for external storage (like WebDAV) because Nextcloud can’t directly process the video files on remote storage. It would need to download each file first, which is too heavy on both storage and CPU.
Right now, there’s no built-in way to generate thumbnails directly on external storage. The only reliable workaround is to sync or mount that storage locally on the server (so it appears as a local folder to Nextcloud). Once the videos are accessible as local files, Memories will generate thumbnails normally.
There’s been some discussion about adding remote thumbnail generation in future versions, but for now, local mounting is the only option that works well.
So I could rsync thew external files locally for each user I have. Can be synced in any user folder and then I could use the indexing command with “php occ memories:index” ? I guess the index is made based on the file/video name and it does not matter where the file resides remotely (same folder or what not) when app will fetch the thumbnail. Also, where are the generated thumbnails stored ?
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