I would like to have the same feature that delete orphan pages to the assets.
How it works now
Currently, if you paste an image into a block, Logseq generates a file with a non human name, for instance, image_1646019226269_0.png. If I remove the image from the page, the image file remains in the assets folder. It make me concerned about generating too much trash fies.
Desired Behaviour
It could have some form to easily query or view the list of orphan assets and decide to delete them in a batch action or selecting individual assets to delete, like we have now for orphan pages.
+1 Right now, I’m having to find the asset I want to discard in the folder and delete it manually. It’s not very practical… Orphan pages are the perfect analogy although I wish it was the other way around. It’s a lot of unnecessary storage in the long run.
I created a Python script to find unused assets. You can run it in your Logseq folder. The unused assets will be moved into a newly created to_delete folder. You can review them or just delete the whole directory.
import os
import shutil
assets_dir = './assets'
journal_dir = './journals'
pages_dir = './pages'
to_delete_dir = './to_delete'
if not os.path.exists(to_delete_dir):
os.makedirs(to_delete_dir)
assets_files = os.listdir(assets_dir)
referenced_files = []
for dirname in [journal_dir, pages_dir]:
for filename in os.listdir(dirname):
if filename.endswith('.md'):
with open(os.path.join(dirname, filename)) as f:
for line in f:
for asset in assets_files:
if asset in line:
referenced_files.append(asset)
for asset in assets_files:
if asset not in referenced_files and not asset.endswith(".edn"):
print(asset)
shutil.move(os.path.join(assets_dir, asset), to_delete_dir)
Thank you for sharing and welcome to the community!
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