[sz4kerto]

> I really don’t get having all of your images in a a library and not in a file structure

Immich can store your photos in a file structure you want. It can also reorganise your files on disk based on EXIF data, and so on.

> I can’t injest, say my iPhone photos and then later categorize them and move them to the folder structure for more secure and stable long-term storage

It can absolutely do exactly this.

https://docs.immich.app/administration/storage-template/

[sonar_un]

The storage template is nothing like managing your photos within the app, moving them to different, more specific, folders. All it does is allow a type of folder structure on the main drive where the upload directories are, but if you have a more specific file structure, it doesn't allow you to manage this.

[kevinfiol]

Does this make Immich effectively function like Photoview? My current Immich by default stores my uploads in an `uploads/<UUID>/<bunch of random two character folders>` structure. This was a huge disappointment after moving from Photoview.

[stavros]

I just had it store images in "photos/YYYY/MM/" when I set it up and that was it.