Kindly asking about the actual status of 'orphaned Files' issue?

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Hi,

just tried to clean up my orphaned files in resource dir by removing all entries in joplin (after exporting), syncing and reimporting my backup. I expected that the resource dir would be empty and the the dropbox dir to be empty as well after removing and syncing. Unfortunately nothing was removed from those dirs …

I was wondering if this issue is in the works and expected to be fixed soon or if there is a workaround in the meantime (except bash removal script or deleting everything manually and registering all joplin instances with dropbox again) ?

thanks

my system:
Joplin 1.0.174 (enable note History off) syncing with Dropbox
Windows10(64)

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If “enable note History off” means that note history is disabled:
I got a response to a similiar question some time ago that note history has to be turned on so that orphaned resource files can be deleted after some time.

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ah… didn’t know about that…
I expected that if it is disabled then deleting an image from a note would remove it from the resourcesdir immediately …
so I enabled it and set days to ‘0’, exited joplin comletely, restarted … nothing was removed …
this is confusing…

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Set it to 1 day and wait at least 48 hours.

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ok I’ll do and try that … ( I am not so sure about the 48h though … read somewhere about 24h … thats why I asked about the current status…)

btw: is there a way to remove everything from local resource dir and remote Dropbox dir without the need to wait 48 hours or reinstalling everything ?

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See this post:
https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/scripts-to-remove-orphaned-resources/2853

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yes i read about that before but just can’t believe that’s not possible to wipe out the data in joplin itsself…
I am on windows so bash seems cmpicated… python would be easier (at least for me …)

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update: