How to rescan the library

[pippo73]

Hello all,
During some work on my server, I've discovered that the server thinks there are some files that are in reality missing on the filesystem.
I would like to know if there is some way to force the immich server to rescan all the library directory in order to re-align the files present on the filesystem and the one that immich thinks there are.

I hope you will understand what I mean :-)

[danieldietzler]

Are you using an external library or did you delete them from the upload library?

[danieldietzler]

You cannot delete files from there. In fact, you shouldn't touch that folder at all. That will not work and break Immich

[pippo73]

Ok. Is there a way to rescan it or I have to start from scratch?.
Later I will fix also the process that deleted the files

[danieldietzler]

Immich won't pick up on changes you made in the upload location. If you did that you need to start from scratch.

[pippo73]

Is there a way then to upload to an external library instead of the UPLOAD_LOCATION?

[bo0tzz]

No