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This change is a follow-up to the discussion in #712, and a replacement for #707 now that the new search is merged. It prevents users which might have assets in multiple albums from accidentally showing unwanted images on immichframe without the need to exclude every other album.

What it does

New opt-in account setting HideAssetsInOtherAlbums (default false). When enabled, every album that is not listed under Albums is added to the search's excluded albums, so an asset that is also in another album is skipped.

The use case: the Immich mobile app's album sync only ever adds assets to albums. A photo moved from one album on the phone to another stays in both on the server, so a frame showing "Dogs" also shows the photo that now belongs in "Documents". Today the fix is listing every other album in ExcludedAlbums and updating it whenever a new album appears.

How

  • AccountSearchPool.ResolveExcludedAlbumIds combines ExcludedAlbums with every album returned by GET /albums that is not selected, deduplicated. Albums shared with the user count too.
  • The result goes into the existing albumIds.none filter through SearchFilters.ForAccount, so Immich does the filtering. The album list is only fetched to resolve the ids and is cached the same way as the tag list.
  • No effect when Albums is empty, since every album would count as "other" and every asset in an album would be hidden.
  • Added to the admin UI as a checkbox below Excluded albums, and to the configuration docs, example settings, swagger.json and immichFrameApi.ts.

Testing

4 new tests in AccountSearchPoolTests:

  • unselected albums, including shared ones, end up in albumIds.none and the selected album does not
  • an album that is both excluded and unselected appears once
  • albums are not listed when the setting is off
  • no effect without Albums

TestV2.json and TestV2.yml include the new property. On Linux CI in my fork, ImmichFrame.Core.Tests passed 74/74 and ImmichFrame.WebApi.Tests passed 26/26.

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  • New Features
    • Added an account setting to hide assets that also appear in albums not listed in your selected albums, including shared albums.
    • The setting is off by default and applies only when selected albums are configured.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Album searches and counts now refresh the album list and retry once if the list is rejected.
  • Documentation
    • Added configuration guidance explaining when the setting applies and how excluded albums are updated.

Adds every album that is not listed under Albums to the search's excluded
albums, so Immich skips assets that also sit in another album. The Immich
mobile app's album sync only ever adds assets to albums, so a photo moved
between device albums stays in both server albums, and the only fix today
is keeping every other album in ExcludedAlbums by hand.

The exclusion runs server side through the existing albumIds.none filter.
The album list is only fetched to resolve the ids and is cached like the
tag list. No effect without Albums, where every album would count as
"other".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds the HideAssetsInOtherAlbums account setting. When enabled and albums are selected, searches exclude assets also found in unselected albums. The setting is represented in configuration, the admin interface, API schemas, and documentation. Album lists are cached per server, and qualifying HTTP 400 search failures trigger one refresh and retry.

Changes

Album exclusion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Account setting surface
ImmichFrame.Core/Interfaces/IServerSettings.cs, ImmichFrame.WebApi/Models/ServerSettings.cs, immichFrame.Web/src/lib/immichFrameApi.ts, openApi/swagger.json, immichFrame.Web/src/lib/components/admin/admin-fields.ts, docker/Settings.example.*, docs/docs/getting-started/configuration.md, ImmichFrame.WebApi.Tests/Resources/TestV2.*
Adds HideAssetsInOtherAlbums, defaulting to false, to account settings and exposes it through the admin interface, API schemas, configuration examples, documentation, and test fixtures.
Resolve and apply album exclusions
ImmichFrame.Core/Helpers/SearchFilters.cs, ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/AccountSearchPool.cs, ImmichFrame.Core.Tests/Logic/Pool/AccountSearchPoolTests.cs
When the setting is enabled and albums are selected, the search pool adds unselected album IDs to configured exclusions and applies them to asset and count searches. Tests cover deduplication and cases that skip album lookup.
Refresh album cache and retry
ImmichFrame.Core/Helpers/ApiCache.cs, ImmichFrame.Core/Interfaces/IApiCache.cs, ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/AccountSearchPool.cs, ImmichFrame.Core.Tests/Logic/Pool/AccountSearchPoolTests.cs
When a qualifying search returns HTTP 400, the pool removes the cached album list and retries once with refreshed exclusions. Tests cover asset and count searches, repeated rejection, and errors when hiding is disabled.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AccountSearchPool
  participant ApiCache
  participant ImmichAPI
  participant SearchFilters
  AccountSearchPool->>ApiCache: Get cached album list
  ApiCache->>ImmichAPI: Fetch albums on cache miss
  ImmichAPI-->>ApiCache: Return album list
  ApiCache-->>AccountSearchPool: Return album list
  AccountSearchPool->>SearchFilters: Pass configured and unselected album IDs
  SearchFilters-->>AccountSearchPool: Return account filter
  AccountSearchPool->>ImmichAPI: Search assets or count
  ImmichAPI-->>AccountSearchPool: Return result or HTTP 400
  AccountSearchPool->>ApiCache: Remove album list after HTTP 400
  AccountSearchPool->>ImmichAPI: Retry search once with refreshed exclusions
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I should also mention I tested the previous build (with the new search API changes and this change) and it worked without issues. Let me know if any changes are needed.

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Review comments at @ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/AccountSearchPool.cs:
- Line 61: Update the `allAlbums` caching flow in `AccountSearchPool` so
access-sensitive album IDs are refreshed rather than reused after access is
revoked; either avoid caching these IDs when `HideAssetsInOtherAlbums` is
enabled or refresh the album list and retry when an access check fails. Ensure
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Comment thread ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/AccountSearchPool.cs Outdated
Immich validates every album id in a search filter, including the ids in
albumIds.none, and answers 400 when one is deleted or no longer shared.
With HideAssetsInOtherAlbums the ids come from a cached album list, so a
removed album kept failing every search until the cache expired.

On a 400 the cached list is dropped and the search retried once with a
fresh one, for both the random search and the statistics call. Without
the setting nothing is retried.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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