The frontend AddSourceFolderDialog let users register source roots
from inside the app, but with the bootstrap auto-creating one for
the /photos mount on first boot, the dialog was redundant in the
common case and confusing in every other (users had to know which
container path corresponded to their host directory). Going
config-driven matches Plex/Photoprism/Immich and matches the
mental model "the docker mount IS the library".
Frontend
- Deleted components/dialogs/AddSourceFolderDialog.tsx entirely.
- LeftSidebar drops the "+ Add Source Folder" button + bottom-bar
layout, the addFolderMutation, the dead Plus action button on
the (no-longer-existing) folders/heaps tree headers, and the
Plus icon import.
- api.ts: removed sourceFolders.add(), library.browse(), and the
BrowseChild / BrowseResponse types. The remaining sourceFolders
surface is read-only (list + manual scan).
- LeftSidebar bottom strip is now just the "Scan all folders"
button when there's at least one source root.
Backend
- Dropped POST /folders (no consumers) along with FolderCreate /
FolderResponse pydantic models. The folders router header now
documents the config-driven approach.
- Dropped GET /library/browse (no consumers). Removed the unused
os/HTTPException/SourceRoot imports it brought in.
- cleanup_data_integrity now also walks the source roots and logs
a warning for any whose path is missing on disk. Doesn't auto-
delete (a missing path could be a temporarily unmounted drive)
but surfaces enough hint to fix it. Returns the count in the
summary dict alongside merged-duplicates.
Docs
- README "How libraries are managed" section rewritten to spell
out that mounts ARE source roots, edit .env + restart, no UI for
managing source roots. New "Changing or adding libraries"
section walks through the typical edit-restart loop including
the optional volume-nuke for a clean slate.
- "Adding more libraries" subsection covers multi-mount via
edited compose with a note that auto-registration is roadmap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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