[Feature] Avoid resyncing if deleted manually

[RebeliusGaming]

The feature

It would be great to avoid immich reuploading a photo that has been deleted in immich.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[arnelap]

Yes, this would be nice!
i understand deleting stuff is scary,... could be a setting with a big disclaimer?

I would even go as far as deleting the image on all devices if it's deleted on the server. Mostly im just cleaning up blurry and failed pictures and then they just reappear!!!

[Sjustein]

I just had this 'issue' happen to me as well. It would be great if immich could have a sort of blacklist of deleted photo's, so they will not be re-synced by the mobile app. I think the blacklist is currently in place (correct me if I'm wrong), where images that are in the trash, because immich doesn't care where the image is, if it exists somewhere, it will not re-upload the image. However, images in the trash are cleared after 30 days, so older images will still be re-uploaded.

I think, the desired feature would be:

• When an image is deleted, it is added to a blacklist, in addition to moving the image to the trash.
• When an image is restored from the trash, it is removed from the blacklist again.

If my assumption is correct, upping the deletion time from trash also solves the issue. I'll do some testing, but let me know whether I'm correct.

[Sjustein]

Immich indeed re-uploads images that are permanently deleted from trash. I've mitigated the issue temporarily by upping the trash auto deletion time, but it's a workaround for sure.

[jbcortes]

This issue is what keeps me from using the mobile app on a regular basis. Given the amount of time that it took me to initially go through all my photos/videos on the server and remove duplicate and unwanted photos, it was really frustrating to then see that the mobile app re-uploaded all the files I had deleted.

I've also seen this issue mentioned in:
#8285
#12051

[StoricU]

This would be very nice.
Doing general housekeeping in the browser now just don't work, since the photos just pop back up 😅
After what I understood when I asked about this on the dicscord, the feature are on the roadmap and should be implemented in the next few releases.

[tzhouML]

My mouth honestly dropped when I saw how poorly this is handled in immich. An option to only sync photos beyond <custom_date> in the mobile apps would probably eliminate all my qualms surrounding this issue.

[lachsh]

My approach along these lines has just been adding all photos before <custom_date> to an album on my phone that I exclude from immich, once I'm confident they've been uploaded – then I just need to make sure to only dedupe/tidy up photos that are already present in that album on my phone.

[Tkd-Alex]

+1, I've built a custom env where the photos are synced with Immich from my Android and iPhone to a dedicated home-server. Then the photos are backupped trought "syncthing" to another driver and I've a mechanism that delete the photos on the Immich server uploaded more than x days ago (clear storage). Now I see the mobile app re-upload all the photos. So I'm now out of space

[Valenwe]

+1

Because I use an external library on Read Only with my pictures inside, I usually move my phone pictures to my external folders. But then when I move my phone's medias to my external library, the phone's application re-backup my moved files (because it sees them as deleted assets) and create tons of duplicates.

The solution to this would be to keep track of backup-ed medias and not backup them again, even if they do not appear in the server. Because we know we already sent the media once, no need to send it again.
Another solution could be to backup only medias created after a given date, or the last backup date.