I just noticed that my pictrs image volume reached 20 GBs in size. Does Lemmy or pictrs not delete the cached images automatically after some time?

  • Dessalines@lemmy.mlM
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    21 hours ago

    You’re using the ProxyAllImages setting then? Otherwise it is storing every image, and it does not delete them.

    • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devOP
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      20 hours ago

      Yeah I am using the “proxy all images” image mode. Though I still don’t get why the images aren’t being deleted at some point.

  • tyler@programming.dev
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    23 hours ago

    They’re not cached images, they’re stored images in your database. If they deleted after any time then your server wouldn’t function, since any old post you loaded would have the images deleted.

    • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devOP
      2·
      22 hours ago

      I just changed to another distro (so I had to set everything up again) and I simply did not backup the pictrs volume because how much time it would’ve taken to transfer it from one machine to another. And well, it seems like what you said is not true. I can load any old post and I will still see its images.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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        1 hour ago

        Pictures you (or your users. if any) uploaded yourself should be gone, though.

        I’ve turned off proxying myself and purged what I could find from pictrs and it’s still taking up way more storage than it should. And it’s a messy black box where I have no idea what’s really going on. Another reason why I want to switch to Piefed.

        • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devOP
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          48 minutes ago

          Yep. They did go away. I just uploaded them back again. Mine is a single user instance and I don’t upload much, so it wasn’t a big problem.

          I hope the Lemmy devs implement this in v1.0.0 because this is pretty annoying.