immich/docs/docs/guides/remove-offline-files.md

Remove Offline Files

:::note Before running the script, please make sure you have a backup of your assets and database :::

This page is a guide to get rid of offline files from the repair page.

This way works by downloading a JSON file that contains a list of all the files that are defined as offline files, running a script that uses the Immich API in order to remove the offline files.

1. Create an API key under Admin User -> Account Settings -> API Keys -> New API Key -> Copy to clipboard.
2. Download the JSON file under Administration -> repair -> Export.
3. Replace YOUR_IP_HERE and YOUR_API_KEY_HERE with your actual IP address and API key in the script.
4. Run the script in the same folder where the JSON file is located.

Script for Linux based systems:

awk -F\" '/entityId/ {print $4}' orphans.json | while read line; do curl --location --request DELETE 'http://YOUR_IP_HERE:2283/api/asset' --header 'Content- Type: application/json' --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE' --data '{ "force": true, "ids": ["'"$line"'"]}';done

Script for the Windows system (run through PowerShell):

Get-Content orphans.json | Select-String -Pattern 'entityId' | ForEach-Object {
$line = line=$_ -split '"' | Select-Object -Index 3
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'http://YOUR_IP_HERE:2283/api/asset' -Method Delete -Headers @{
'Content-Type' = 'application/json'
'x-api-key' = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
} -Body "{"force": true, "ids": ["$line"]}"
}

Thanks to DooMRunneR for writing this script.