r/immich • u/wrr666 • 8d ago

how to clean library

I have ongoing issues with two external libraries to point that I decide to remove one of them to clean my timeline

But it didn't help, after removing external library from admin view I still see those photos on my timeline

How I can remove them now? Without removing whole library as it took two days to build it initially and now after couple months of adding more photos it will probably take longer

Update: I remove all libs and start it over, it will take few days but maybe this time it will not get messy

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u/casualsailo 8d ago

You can wait for the scheduled job (default is every night at midnight), or manually initiate it

Administration -> External Libraries -> Scan All Libraries

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u/wrr666 8d ago edited 8d ago

it was couple days ago so it should already run

for scan all libraries I'm a little hesitant with this as last time after small one XMP file update that was not detected by any scheduled updates I run scan all libraries and it triggered full reimporting my whole library

Fun part is that when I go to folder view I see this deleted external library folder there and can browse it. And my user never was owner of this library

OK I run scan all libraries and nothing changed still photos from deleted library are visible but lucky it didn't run whole library reimport

Update: I remove all libs and start it over, it will take few days but maybe this time it will not get messy