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Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) now supports direct-removal of media from Pict-rs (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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As with many others, I've recently needed to do some purging of media in Pict-rs. What I also discovered is that due to an issue with either Lemmy, Pict-rs, or my setup, at some point Pict-rs was not properly removing files from the file system on a purge, leaving about 20GB of media orphaned.

To combat this, I've updated LPP with some additional configuration options to do both direct "purge" of leftover media in Pict-rs not tied to "kept" posts and a forced "remove" of files on the file system that are not properly purged (if using local storage).

You can find all the new options at the GitHub link above.

As a reminder, LPP only removes posts/media older than a specified time if they have not been posted, marked read, voted on, commented on, had comments voted on, or saved by users on your instance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This should come in handy, thank you!

[–] veam 3 points 1 year ago

Very nice job mr fender :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a follow-up question if you don't mind! You mentioned this:

To combat this, I’ve updated LPP with some additional configuration options to do both direct “purge” of leftover media in Pict-rs not tied to “kept” posts and a forced “remove” of files on the file system that are not properly purged (if using local storage).

Is there a specific setting to use this? For example, if I don't want to setup any aging post purging at the moment, but just want to do as you mentioned (removing any media that isn't tied to a post), which setting(s) would I use to accomplish this?

It looks like this might be done by just passing in a PICTRS_FOLDER directory, and then setting a high PURGE_OLDER_THAN_DAYS variable would do this if I understand right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That wouldn't work, but I see what you're looking to do. Open an issue and I'll make a flag 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can definitely do!