[Immich] Moving library to different path

[Chaoscontrol]

If I wanted to move my Immich library to a different drive/path, what would be the right process?

For sure I’ll need to update the data_location env. But will that update all the db paths automatically on boot?

I’ve been asking in Immich Discord but they don’t support the HA setup, so they can’t help me.

In my case it’s from /media/4TB/immich/ → /media/STORAGE/immich, and they told me the db doesn’t store host paths, but it does in the HA setup I think.

They said it should be this for Docker Composer setup, so it shouldn’t affect the db:
/media/4TB/immich:/photo → /media/STORAGE/immich:/photo

[Chaoscontrol]

Solved. I just tried booting after changing the data_location and lo and behold:

�[33m[Nest] 1197  - �[39m08/29/2025, 9:14:54 AM �[33m   WARN�[39m �[33m[Api:StorageService]�[39m �[33mDetected a change to media location, performing an automatic migration of file paths from /media/4TB/immich to /media/STORAGE/immich, this may take awhile�[39m

Alex had already thought of that and handled it perfectly. All db paths updated automagically for me. :D Brilliant. Thanks so much for your amazing work to the HA community once again.