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Hello everyone!

I've been hosting Ente on my server for a year or so, and it has been going well. But last month I discovered that some images and video's on both my own and shared albums are blacked out and I cannot click on them directly.

For the ones I could download, I deleted the original ones afterwards and uploaded them again. This did fix the issue, but there are way too many images for this to be done manually, not to mention the ones that error out when downloading. There are also some images that do display correctly on my Android phone and my family's iPhones. Though the latter issue might be explained away by the (lack of) needed codecs on my Fedora system.

I checked my hard drive's health using smartctl. The self test completed with no errors, and the SMART test passed. I also updated the Ente containers but the issue persisted.

There is no agency or anything. I have a cold backups for the volume from two months ago and an a simple plaintext one from last year. So it's luckily not a major issue, but I am a bit worried the issue may reappear after reverting.

Has anyone else had this issue? Or some pointers to where I could be looking?

Cheers!

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[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

You can try reaching out to ente directly. They've been pretty responsive in the past even though I'm also self hosting.

[-] Lemmert@reddthat.com 2 points 7 hours ago

I was a bit unsure of contacting them because of self hosting it. Thanks for telling me! I'll edit the post to add the fix if I/they found a way to resolve it.

this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
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