Seafile and Photoprism

Amidst all the chaos with my file synchronisation and Ecosystematic-Wall with Nextcloud, it was probably the best decision to move to Seafile and Photoprism. I spent the last week testing things and they turned out well and I quite like them!

Seafile and Photoprism are amazing in their respective domains and they have their own issues to solve in their own domains. So arguably that makes the platform better and better with time. I have a lot of hopes on both of these services since they have made my life so much easier with file storage and photos/videos organisation.

However, Photoprism lacks multi account support as of now (its on the roadmap) and I’m hopeful for this release since the service is already very neat and polished!

What Test? MINETEST!!

I just love minetest! I had played the game before, but boy oh boy! when it’s paired with other players who are your friends and relatives in your own server, the fun is almost ten folds than that of single player. I kind-of hate myself for not trying it out during the lockdown since this would have been a fun way to virtually meet my buddies (I hope).

Better late than never! Now I have finally created a world and I have added tons of mods to the server and made it customisable to my needs. Just in case you want to build one for yourself, you can find the mod info here. I will eventually open it to the world once I learn how to moderate the server better. I want my world to be a fun filled place, I just gotta learn to be a good admin :)

And I hope you are having a nice day, or nice night, depending on where you are reading from :)

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Tags : #Nextcloud #Photoprism #Seafile #Minetest

Timestamp : #June2021

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#June2021

So, What Happened?

I was trying to move photos from Nextcloud to Photoprism (Docker). Photoprism has a feature where I can add a WebDav folder and it will sync the photos automatically. That’s great! Because I don’t need to download the photos manually and then upload it to Photoprism. I was seriously liking the whole process and it made my life a bit simpler while setting up these services. After the sync, I deleted the WebDav folder from Nextcloud (of which the photos were synced) like a good boy since the photos were already copied and started organising the photos in Photoprism.

It was genuinely a good productive day. Things had gone as per the plan and it couldn’t have been any better. And I called it a day and had a very sound sleep.

The next day, to my surprise, the photos that I carefully collected over the years were lost (Mysteriously). There was nothing more terrifying at that moment when I saw my gallery folder empty!!

Yeah, But How?

Apparently, Photoprism and Nextcloud folder was on sync. That means, whenever the folder in Nextcloud changes, Photoprism also does that change in its folder and its consequent database.

After the sync, Like I deleted the WebDav folder from Nextcloud (of which the photos were synced) like a good boy and started organising the photos in Photoprism.

This is where I did a blunder and everything was gone! Since Photoprism saw no photos in the Nextcloud folder, it went ahead and deleted everything from its folder. Simple!

And, How did you recover them?

So, Nextcloud has a built in trash feature which I had enabled while I had installed Nextcloud in my server. After the migration, I had deleted the Nextcloud folder in the Nextcloud web interface which will move the folder from files to files_trash.

It took me a while to get there since web_ui in Nextcloud was unresponsive and amidst all this confusion, I forgot that there was even a files_trash folder in the Nextcloud setup. I should have removed the Nextcloud <–> Photoprism sync first before deleting one of the folders.

Then a quick copy and import recovered all the photos and videos. However then I carefully deleted my Nextcloud without affecting any other components in the setup. Phew! it was a really long morning. A Lesson for Life.

Categorized under #Note

Tags : #Lessons4Life #Nextcloud #PhotoPrism #Seafile #Photos #Videos

Timestamp : #June2021