
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.
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.