[Feature] Free Up Space (Android App Feature) Dangerously Broadens Deletion Scope by Default: Adjust This

[Chrimbus9000]

I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

When using the 'Free Up Space' function on the Android app the function offers the ability to select local device folders to exclude from deletion (Free Up Space -> Keep on device -> Keep albums).

The conditions of concern are that:

1. The list of local folders includes all local folders on the phone, not just folders selected in 'Backup Albums'.

2. The line items in the local folders list is unselected by default (defaulting to deletion).

This leads to the following problems:

3. If a local folder newly acquires it's first image file, the next time 'Free Up Space' is run the new local folder will be included in the deletion be default. This is risky.

4. Due to the above, by default Immich deletes photos from folders used excusivly by other applications. This occrus if the photos have been copied to other applications / folders intentionally, then deleted from Immich (e.g. moved to an app such as Obsidian, then deleted from Immich). Immich seems to still remember that the deleted photo was at one point uploaded to the server and will proceed to delete it from the local folder used exclusively by the other application (e.g. deletes image files in the local device folder used by Obsidian).

Proposed solutions (only one needed):

5. Modify (Free Up Space -> Keep on device -> Keep albums) interface / function to select all by default and folders must be intentionally unselected. Alternatively, invert the question (Free Up Space -> Keep on device -> Delete albums) such that the safer default of no selections for deletion is in place.

6. Do not allow (Free Up Space -> Keep on device -> Keep albums) to display any local folders that are not already selected in the 'Backup Albums' function.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[fudgesickles]

I think proposed solutions 6 is ideal. Thanks for catching this and I hope it gets more upvotes considering the potential for unintentional data loss.