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[Feature] Mass remove already backed-up photos
Feature Details:
- [ ] Google Photos style "Free-up space", will remove all photos from device that are already backed up (manual)
- [ ] Automatic delete of local assets based on some settings, some ideas below:
- [ ] X days have passed
- [ ] Maximum storage space used by assets
- [ ] Minimum free space left on device
- [ ] https://support.google.com/files/answer/10862356?hl=en
- [ ] https://cdn.nerdschalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/how-to-delete-backed-up-photos-and-videos-4-a.png?width=800
Screenshot of Android Implementation
Google Photos Free Up Space
Platform
Mobile App
Notes
From Google Photos, it looks like this is possible on both iOS and Android. On Android it's only possible in android versions lower than Android 12 if the app is your default photo viewer. In Android 12 and higher it's possible for any app to delete photos without confirmation by targeting android 12 and requesting the special media management permission. More details can be found here: https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/media#management-permission
this would be nice. Potentially down-sample images? or set an age limit, where older images are removed from the device, and if you want to view them it grabs them from the server?
I dont know if i would want to just remove them immediately.
I would also want to be able to totally remove images from both phone and server.
It would probably be useful to set a threshold on the age of photos. Like delete everything that's backed up and older than 2 Years for example.
Maybe this warrants its own issue, but I'll put it here for now: It'd also be nice if the delete prompt allowed you to only delete files from the server, while keeping them on the local device.
Actually, just like Google Photos I'd like to delete photos from the backup (server) as well. When background backup is implemented, all photos will be transferred, also the ones that you delete from your phone. (Who doesn't take multiple pictures only to save the best one?)
Yea, would be good to have both all options available to you, could just say Delete From: Server, Local, Both as clickable options
This feature would really be a game-changer for Immich. It is the one feature I've been missing from all Google Photos replacements!
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/774 is closed? Is this feature still under development?
That PR was closed because it was inactive for months, so the feature is not currently under development.
well :/ not good once people backup photos to a "cloud" or self-hosted cloud would probably regain the space on the device that was the original source
This feature will be implemented eventually, however it is not a priority at the moment
I decided to give Immich a go on kubernetes with the helm chart and I gotta say this is really well done so great work 😃
(Facial recognition was the feature that pushed me to give it a try btw.)
This "Free up space" ability (as Google/Android calls it) is exactly the missing feature that is needed to eventually completely drop Google Photos IMHO.
Again great work I'm amazed and encouraged 🎉
This is a feature I'd also love to see, I've just set up an immich server to determine whether it's a suitable, self hosted, Google photos replacement and so far this is the biggest missing feature I've come across.
I'm surprised this isn't already a feature. I'm blown away that it isn't a priority feature.
I can't speak for everyone, but this feature is the sole reason I spun up an instance of immich. To give my family an easy way to offload photos to my server and free up device space following.
PLEASE put this in the feature cycle to be worked on.
Otherwise, you guys have done a phenominal job on all fronts. Functionality is great, ui is smooth and the mobile apps at this stage of development is mind blowing.
Thank you!
@nmoore1 we are aware this is a needed feature and will work on it eventually. It is one of the last feature we will work on before the stable release. Because of the nature of destruction of the feature, we want to make sure the server is stable and you have a good way to rebuild your instance if needed during the development cycle.
I hope this answers why it is not a priority feature at the moment
@alextran1502 that's great to hear! I was worried it wouldn't be a thing at all, but that makes sense. Thank you.
Also, looks like deleting from the native photo app accomplishes this in a round about way. I set up a one way back up to make sure nothing goes sideways while still in the development phase.
@alextran1502 Thanks for your answer. Is there any tracking issue for this stable release or a planned release date?
@nick008a you opened a duplicate of this FR. Please close yours.
I don't think it's a duplicate. Sure, both are used to delete local copies, but @nick008a FR only deletes a specific copy. The argument to have the server stable isn't as strong because it's not as destructive. To block @nick008a feature because of a non-stable server is just an annoyance because you can already delete photo via the native photo app.
crazy such a crucial feature is not in? bump
Please read the thread, folks
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/165#issuecomment-1575164317
I would like to
- delete and down-sample images that have already been uploaded to server
- have a down-sampled local copy of images on server that are not on my phone.
The PR #4505 seems like it will be merged soon, and it would help mitigate this issue while we wait for the full solution.
The PR #4505 seems like it will be merged soon, and it would help mitigate this issue while we wait for the full solution.
yeah but this is a different think...
yeah but this is a different think...
It seems to implement the manual deletion of already backed up photos, but not any automatic deletion.