Failed to read upload/encoded-video/.immich: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory

[Martin-int01]

The bug

Hi,

I have created a new Immich container. In Immich I added 4 external libraries and scanned them successfully.
Now I have removed the container and created a new one.
Immich-server no longer starts. I get the following error:

Failed to read upload/encoded-video/.immich: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory

I have tried to create the folder encoded-video and the file .immich manually.
Unfortunately, immich-server still does not start

thank you in advanced

best

Martin

The OS that Immich Server is running on

Ubuntu 24.04 with docker compose

Version of Immich Server

v1.124.2

Version of Immich Mobile App

v1.124.1

Platform with the issue

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

Your docker-compose.yml content

name: immich

services:
  immich-server:
    container_name: immich_server
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    # extends:
    #   file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
    #   service: cpu # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/upload
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - type: bind
        source: /mnt/shares/Martin
        target: /app/photos/Martin
      - type: bind
        source: /mnt/shares/Marialuisa
        target: /app/photos/Marialuisa
      - type: bind
        source: /mnt/shares/Claudia
        target: /app/photos/Claudia
      - type: bind
        source: /mnt/shares/Common
        target: /app/photos/Common
    env_file:
      - .env
    ports:
      - '2283:2283'
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - database
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.immich.rule=Host(`gallery.mydomain.eu`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.immich.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.immich.tls=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.immich.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt"
      - "traefik.http.services.immich.loadbalancer.server.port=2283"
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
      disable: false

  immich-machine-learning:
    container_name: immich_machine_learning
    # For hardware acceleration, add one of -[armnn, cuda, openvino] to the image tag.
    # Example tag: ${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}-cuda
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    # extends: # uncomment this section for hardware acceleration - see https://immich.app/docs/features/ml-hardware-acceleration
    #   file: hwaccel.ml.yml
    #   service: cpu # set to one of [armnn, cuda, openvino, openvino-wsl] for accelerated inference - use the `-wsl` version for WSL2 where applicable
    volumes:
      - model-cache:/cache
    env_file:
      - .env
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
      disable: false

  redis:
    container_name: immich_redis
    image: docker.io/redis:6.2-alpine@sha256:eaba718fecd1196d88533de7ba49bf903ad33664a92debb24660a922ecd9cac8
    healthcheck:
      test: redis-cli ping || exit 1
    restart: always

  database:
    container_name: immich_postgres
    image: docker.io/tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0@sha256:90724186f0a3517cf6914295b5ab410db9ce23190a2d9d0b9dd6463e3fa298f0
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
      POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
      POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: '--data-checksums'
    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the database storage location on your system, edit the value of DB_DATA_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${DB_DATA_LOCATION}:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    healthcheck:
      test: >-
        pg_isready --dbname="$${POSTGRES_DB}" --username="$${POSTGRES_USER}" || exit 1;
        Chksum="$$(psql --dbname="$${POSTGRES_DB}" --username="$${POSTGRES_USER}" --tuples-only --no-align
        --command='SELECT COALESCE(SUM(checksum_failures), 0) FROM pg_stat_database')";
        echo "checksum failure count is $$Chksum";
        [ "$$Chksum" = '0' ] || exit 1
      interval: 5m
      start_interval: 30s
      start_period: 5m
    command: >-
      postgres
      -c shared_preload_libraries=vectors.so
      -c 'search_path="$$user", public, vectors'
      -c logging_collector=on
      -c max_wal_size=2GB
      -c shared_buffers=512MB
      -c wal_compression=on
    restart: always

volumes:
  model-cache:

Your .env content

# You can find documentation for all the supported env variables at https://immich.app/docs/install/environment-variables

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/opt/immich-app/library
# The location where your database files are stored
DB_DATA_LOCATION=/opt/immich-app/postgres

# To set a timezone, uncomment the next line and change Etc/UTC to a TZ identifier from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
# TZ=Etc/UTC

# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=release

# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
# Please use only the characters `A-Za-z0-9`, without special characters or spaces
DB_PASSWORD=postgres

# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich

Reproduction steps

1. Create an Immich Container with default settings
2. Finish Immich first start wizard
3. Add external library
4. scan external library
5. recreate the Immich Container
   ...

Relevant log output

Initializing Immich v1.124.2

Detected CPU Cores: 4

Starting api worker

Starting microservices worker

[Nest] 7  - 01/13/2025, 2:25:57 PM     LOG [Microservices:EventRepository] Initialized websocket server

[Nest] 7  - 01/13/2025, 2:25:57 PM     LOG [Microservices:MetadataService] Bootstrapping metadata service

[Nest] 7  - 01/13/2025, 2:25:57 PM     LOG [Microservices:MetadataService] Initializing metadata service

[Nest] 7  - 01/13/2025, 2:25:57 PM     LOG [Microservices:MapRepository] Initializing metadata repository

[Nest] 7  - 01/13/2025, 2:25:57 PM     LOG [Microservices:MetadataService] Initialized local reverse geocoder

[Nest] 7  - 01/13/2025, 2:25:57 PM     LOG [Microservices:ServerService] Feature Flags: {

  "smartSearch": true,

  "facialRecognition": true,

  "duplicateDetection": true,

  "map": true,

  "reverseGeocoding": true,

  "importFaces": false,

  "sidecar": true,

  "search": true,

  "trash": true,

  "oauth": false,

  "oauthAutoLaunch": false,

  "passwordLogin": true,

  "configFile": false,

  "email": false

}

[Nest] 7  - 01/13/2025, 2:25:57 PM     LOG [Microservices:StorageService] Verifying system mount folder checks, current state: {"mountChecks":{"thumbs":true,"upload":true,"backups":true,"library":true,"profile":true,"encoded-video":true}}

[Nest] 7  - 01/13/2025, 2:25:57 PM   ERROR [Microservices:StorageService] Failed to read upload/encoded-video/.immich: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'upload/encoded-video/.immich'

microservices worker error: Error: Failed to read "<UPLOAD_LOCATION>/encoded-video/.immich - Please see https://immich.app/docs/administration/system-integrity#folder-checks for more information."

microservices worker exited with code 1

Killing api process

Additional information

No response

[schuhbacca]

For starter, your compose is wrong. You are not binding the correct directory.
${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/upload should be ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload

Second, whenever you start fresh, you need to make sure to delete postgres data as well.

[Martin-int01]

Hi,

ok. I deleted now the postgres database and started from fresh. Now it works.
Is it possible to start also only with the postgres database, without volumes?
For example create a fresh container, start only postgres und restore a database backup?

thank you in advance!

[schuhbacca]

Process is outlined here: https://immich.app/docs/administration/backup-and-restore/