What's a good way to remove all uploaded media?
What is a good way to remove all uploaded media on an immich account?
motive:
my experience with uploading medias from immich app android is less than ideal (cloud-local duplicates showing up in timeline in android immich app)
i want to copy the android DCIM folder into external library directly and remove all the previously app uploaded media
immich host is on docker desktop (W11)
I already have a 300GB external library with all the immich jobs finished, so please don't tell me to reinstall immich
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.there should be no (exact) duplicates. if there are, you could clean them up via the deduplication tool https://my.immich.app/utilities/duplicates
thanks bro but duplicate is not the issue here
oh, I think I get your problem now. you uploaded your media via phone, the same data already exists in the external library? correct?
thats why you have "duplicates" showing in your app
so you suggest that i dump the android media folder into external storage,
and let immich detect and remove all the duplicates in serverside?
He's not suggesting, just clarifying
You're uploading files via the app, yes? Do you have those same files also added through an external library?
I would suggest the exact opposite. The immich magic works best with data managed directly by immich (meaning not an external library) Immich only checks for duplicates if the assets are not in an external library. So I would suggest that you import the external libraries into immich via cli and let immich deduplicate.
i've uploaded some medias (a few hundred selected image/videos) via android app
i'm not satisfied with the uploads (spotty internet connection, probably missed some and stuffs)
I want to remove all the uploads from immich server
and put in the media by using PC (select the medias and copy to external library)
is there a way to just remove uploads?
or should i just paste the medias right into external library and just let immich deduplicates?
immich won't deduplicate in external library
Immich only checks for duplicates if the assets are not in an external library
i think immich checks duplicates even in external library, i've seen it happened
when i dropped in 300GB medias on external library@bo0tzz does immich deduplicate / reject also for external libraries? if yes, was this added recently?
>reject
nope, reject only happens on upload
i mean when i go into the deduplicate utility on immich page it'll show me duplicates even in external lib
The dedupe utility works for external libs too yes
The exact-file on upload dedupe doesn't
ok, that was what I meant
There's no easy way, no
Why do you want to have your media in external libraries and not directly in immich?
1. i can't make sense of this upload folder structure that immich creates
use a storage template? this could help you sort your images in the library
this is how mine looks
the external library is a few hundred GBs of family media
that i prefer to have it's folder structure untouched by immich so that my family member can recognize it when they access the files directly (SMB share)
and i don't want to upload it into immich and double the size it takes
ok, understandable
are you familar with sql?
nope 🥺