Best approach for removing low-quality images (<1MB) from library?
Hi Team,
Thank you for all your hard work! I've just uploaded over 36K images and I notice I've brought in a lot of poor quality images that are less than 1MB.
My question is, what would be the best approach to finding these files and deleting them? My current thoughts are:
1. In terminal, I could run a filter or find command in my uploads folder, something like
find ./uploads -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.jpeg" -o -iname "*.png" \) -size -1M to inspect and delete. However, after this step, I'm unsure which post-administrative steps I would need to take, for example, which services/jobs to run to address all the broken links, etc.
2. I saw a feature request for something called smart albums here https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/2903 where I would create a filter based on file size. I don't believe I've seen this implemented yet, so I'm open to your thoughts.
Thanks again.3 Replies
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.1. You can’t ever delete files manually from the upload_location folders. You could get a list of files as you said and then use the API to delete
2. Smart albums are not here yet but that might be possible some day
The file size is stored in the Postgres database so you can do some SQL to get a lot of asset IDs less than a. Certain size then delete with API
Oh true, thank you for the suggestions @Zeus ! Will likely use the API to delete them. Appreciate your guidance. Have a good day ahead