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I have been reading up on pict-rs and it seems that the environment variable
PICTRS__MEDIA__RETENTION__PROXY
is the one to set for cleaning up old cached images.It seems they added this environment variable in
pict-rs
version 0.4.2 so I bumped our pict-rs version from 0.4.0 to 0.4.2 and applied the environment variable now.Hopefully this will take care of the disk space growing on its own, but will keep an eye on it. :)
I found a problem. It removes Avatar & Banner pictures from your profile!
I noticed this also. Since all pictures are handled by pict rs, deleting anything from disk risks removing any picture users have uploaded also.
Interesting design choice of Lemmy to keep both cached images and user images in the same place with the same names... They all look the same on disk with generated names.
I noticed today that community pics are gone also.
Try to upload the same images again and if that doesn't work, try to create new images to replace them. I will also try tomorrow to look into this more...
Awesome! Hopefully it works!