Album does not get created in Google Photos library

[apastel]

Hello, first time trying this out and I've noticed my photos are getting uploaded correctly, but a new album with the photos does not get created despite having makeAlbums enabled.

I'm running on Raspbian Buster and I've tried both the :latest and :preview tags of docker-gphotos-uploader. Let me know if this is something I should take up with the actual gphotos-uploader-cli, but I wanted to post here first in case it's an issue with the docker image.

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My config file

{
  SecretsBackendType: auto,
  APIAppCredentials: {
    ClientID:     "<my_client_id>",
    ClientSecret: "<my_client_secret>",
  }
  jobs: [
    {
      account: alex.r.pastel@gmail.com
      sourceFolder: /test_photos
      makeAlbums: {
        enabled: true
        use: folderName
      }
      deleteAfterUpload: false
      uploadVideos: true
      includePatterns: []
	  excludePatterns: [ "*__id" ]
    }
  ]
}

Container creation

docker run -d --name=gphotos-uploader -p 29070:29070 -v /home/pi/photo-sync/config:/config -v /home/pi/photo-sync/test_photos/:/test_photos --restart unless-stopped rfgamaral/gphotos-uploader:preview

Command output

$ docker exec -it gphotos-uploader run
[info]   Opening browser to complete authorization.
[warn]   Browser was not detected. Complete the authorization browsing to: http://localhost:29070
[info]   Found item to upload: /test_photos/2020-04-11_21-23-11_UTC.jpg
[info]   1 files pending to be uploaded in folder '/test_photos'.
[info]   1 processed files: 1 successfully, 0 with errors

After this is done, there is no new album in my Google Photos library. I would expect there to be one titled "test_photos".

[rfgamaral]

Although the documentation doesn't clearly say that, I believe the makeAlbums option only applies to sub-folders and not the root folder.

In other words, your sourceFolder is /test_photos and this is the root folder, so it will never be created as an album. Only the folders inside the root test_photos folder will. Please try that :)

[apastel]

Wow, you're right, that was it. 🙄
Thanks. Yeah I wish the documentation made that a little more clear. Their example shows subfolders, but doesn't say what will happen if you don't have subfolders.

[rfgamaral]

Glad you got it sorted out :)