Possible to delete old photos after download (by X number of days)

[Eagle248]

Any possibility to add functionality to auto delete old pictures from the iCloud after successful download?

1. As iCloud storage is expensive I was just wondering if icloud_photos_downloader can auto delete old pictures which are older than example 120 days. By this way iCloud storage is always available and instead of deleting all the icloud pictures after a download, only last X number of days, pictures will be deleted.

2. With current functionality of auto_delete, deleting photos from icloud, does it delete those pictures from iphone as well?

Thank you for looking into this.

[AndreyNikiforov]

Any possibility to add functionality to auto delete old pictures from the iCloud after successful download?

1. As iCloud storage is expensive I was just wondering if icloud_photos_downloader can auto delete old pictures which are older than example 120 days. By this way iCloud storage is always available and instead of deleting all the icloud pictures after a download, only last X number of days, pictures will be deleted.

There has been a number of requests to delete old pictures. Ideas I remember:

• limit by interval from now (e.g. older than X days)
• limit by total size of the iCloud (e.g. make all photos fit XG and delete oldest over that bar)
• keep certain photos on icloud indefinitely (e.g. keep favorites regardless of date)
• optimize storage for old photos of certain types (e.g. remove originals from RAW+JPEGs and keep only jpegs in icloud)

Hope, we'll have these eventually.

2. With current functionality of auto_delete, deleting photos from icloud, does it delete those pictures from iphone as well?

If icloud is synced to idevices, then deleting asset in icloud (with icloudpd or through icloud.com) will remove that image from all devices. Syncing enables pictures from idevices to be auto-uploaded into icloud in the first place, so I assume everybody who is using icloudpd is using syncing (I cannot think of any other config/flow).

[Eagle248]

limit by interval from now (e.g. older than X days) - would have been easier method and hopefully, this gets implemented.

[dojoca]

Just adding my 2 cents on this... I'd love this functionality.
It would allow for the optimal usage of iCloud - keep "current" photos available and synced, but then use icloudpd as an archiver for older photos.

If this was a thing, I'd be able to automate this process, so my photos get moved to my self hosted immich instance each day.