gphotos-uploader-cli: album creation is broken - 1 album per photo

I tried to upload a bunch of photos and did set album

      makeAlbums: {
        enabled: true
        use: folderNames
      }

which resulted in one album per photo instead of per folder. This is with an installation as of today (2018-10-22) direct from Github with go, running Debian/sid.

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Created 6 years ago
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@antonmos Yes I’ve seen it. Current master branch has a fix for albums pagination, but this doesn’t address the problem with album creation…

There are several concurrent processes calling GetOrCreateAlbumByName(). It’s happening that when one process is creating the album, another process doesn’t know about it, so it will try to create it again. Due to the possibility of creating several albums with the same name, different upload() process are using different albums IDs. You can see it here.

This bug was probably introduced when concurrency was implemented. A way to testing it is to set const maxNumberOfWorkers = 1 on fileUpload.go. Previous of that the album pagination was causing some issues, too. 😢

pacoorozco on Aug 31, 2019