Delete files from filesystem
Is it possible to delete files directly from the filesystem? or will the elements then be orphaned?
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No, they would be orphaned
I have a lot of duplicates uploaded, what would then be a good approach to delete all of them? I was planning to let a dup detector delete them
There's not really a good way at the moment, best would be to deduplicate before uploading
hmm okay not the answer i hoped. Is there something planned? Maybe a "rescan" library would be nice. But anyway thanks for your help. I really appreciate it 🙂
We'd like to add some deduplication tools into immich at some point, but no concrete plans yet
yeah ill look forward to that. In the meantime, how would you proceed in manual deduplication? just use a dup detector, delete all duplicates and spin up a fresh instance of immich, and upload all of the images using the bulk upload cli tool?
yeah
okay thanks ill do that
just to make sure, would my mobile app only upload pictures that are then not yet on the server? or would it upload duplicates as well?
If a file already exists on the server it won't be uploaded
ok thank you so much!