Ability to add assets to shared albums

[jgoclawski]

Hi,

Love the tool! I'm in the process of migrating my and my wife's photos from Google Photos to Immich. We had a few shared albums in Google Photos - I was their owner and my wife would add her photos there.
So in Immich I'm trying to have the same structure - an album owned by me, shared with my wife and her photos added there.
My issue is that when import my wife's photos from Takeout, a new album is created in Immich, instead of the shared one being used.

E.g. - Immich has an album "Spain 2018" owned by User A. User B uploads assets using immich-go:

./immich-go -server http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3001 -key xxx -log-level info \
upload -album "Spain 2018" "/share/UserB/Google Photos/Spain 2018"

And a new album "Spain 2018" is created. I'd love to reuse the existing, shared album.

Looks like it's about getting Albums from Immich -> https://github.com/simulot/immich-go/blob/main/immich/albums.go#L23
Is there a chance to add shared=true to the API call? https://immich.app/docs/api/get-all-albums
Maybe it could be controlled with a flag?

[simulot]

Immich-go place photos in the album with the exact same name. If this album is shared, the photos will be shared.
If the album doesn't exist, immich-go creates it, not shared. you can share it in the application.

[jgoclawski]

Hi, thanks for you reply. Based on my experiments, I don't think that immich-go "sees" the albums that are shared, but owned by another user.

Consider the following scenario:

"User 2" has access to 3 albums:

• Album 2A (owned by "User 2", not shared)
• Album 2B (owned by "User 2", shared with "User 1")
• Album 1B (owned by "User 1", shared with "User 2")

When "User 2" uses immich-go it sees only "Album 2A" and "Album 2B". If I tell it to import assets to "Album 1B", it will not see it and create a new one with that name (owned by "User 2", not shared).

It's about how immich-go calls Immich API.

When "User 2" calls /api/albums, then 2 albums are returned: "Album 2A" and "Album 2B", so a bit like "albums owned by me".
When "User 2" calls /api/albums?shared=true, then 2 different albums are returned "Album 2B" and "Album 1B", so a bit like "only shared albums, no matter who's the owner".

Would you consider adding the shared=true flag to the API call? It's what the web Immich UI does to list albums - it calls the API twice ( /api/albums + /api/albums?shared=true ) to get all the albums.

[simulot]

I'll check it