[Support]: How to manually clean old snapshots, events, recordings, favorites?

[ovizii]

Describe the problem you are having

I have upgraded to Frigate 0.14 and would like to delete all old items. Frigate claims there's a lot of space used.

I sincerely don't need that stuff.

Version

0.14.0-da913d8

Frigate config file

database:
  path: /config/frigate.db

mqtt:
  host: core-mosquitto
  user: mosquitto
  password: secret

detectors:
  coralAI: # <---------- Name your detector (you can choose any name)
    type: edgetpu # <-- This specifies that you want to use the Coral USB Accelerator
    device: usb # <-- This tells Frigate to use the USB connected Coral device

ffmpeg:
  output_args:
    record: preset-record-generic # record without audio

go2rtc:
  streams:
    cam01:
      - rtsp://frigate:[email protected]:554/Streaming/channels/101?transportmode=unicast&profile=Profile_1
    cam01_sub:
      - rtsp://frigate:[email protected]:554/Streaming/channels/102?transportmode=unicast&profile=Profile_2
  webrtc:
    candidates:
      - 192.168.96.2:8555
      - 100.71.132.49:8555
      - stun:8555
# sample logging levels and their order ALL < TRACE < DEBUG < INFO < WARN < ERROR < FATAL < OFF
  log:
    level: info  # default level
    api: info
    exec: info
    ngrok: info
    rtsp: info
    streams: info
    webrtc: info

cameras:
  cam01: # <------ Name the camera
    ffmpeg:
      input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/cam01
          roles:
            - record
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/cam01_sub
          roles:
            - detect

    detect:
      enabled: true
      fps: 6
      width: 1280 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      height: 720 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
    live:
      quality: 6

  # this configures the snapshots sent over mqtt
    mqtt:
      enabled: true
      bounding_box: true
      timestamp: false
      crop: false
      height: 480
      quality: 95

    objects:
      track:
        - person
      filters:
        person:
          threshold: 0.7
          min_area: 60000
    zones:
      door:
        coordinates: 933,592,1231,0,621,0,646,207,664,395
      window:
        coordinates: 118,67,235,0,380,0,460,241,293,379
      kitchen:
        coordinates: 1213,246,1055,720,859,720
      bedroom:
        coordinates: 328,720,496,720,107,288


snapshots:
  enabled: true
  bounding_box: true
  timestamp: false
  retain:
    default: 7
    objects:
      person: 10


record:
  enabled: true
# save recordings with all / motion / active_objects for XX days
  retain:
    days: 7
    mode: motion
# save recordings overlapping with events with all / motion / active_objects for xx days
  events:
    pre_capture: 10
    post_capture: 20
# this limits the types of objects recorded
    objects:
      - person
    retain:
      default: 7
      mode: active_objects
      objects:
        person: 14

motion:
  threshold: 25
  contour_area: 35

birdseye:
  enabled: true
  mode: motion
version: 0.14

# can be overridden at the camera level
review:
  alerts:
    labels:
      - person

Relevant log output

no logs, no errros

FFprobe output from your camera

not necessary for my question

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

HassOS

Install method

HassOS Addon

Object Detector

Coral

Network connection

Wired

Camera make and model

not necessary for my question

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[NickM-27]

You can just delete the files from the file system, but that won't change what frigate shows until it decides it needs to delete those due to the retention config.

[NickM-27]

yes, any events that were favorited will stay forever because we don't want to remove something that a user may still need.

[ovizii]

Not sure waht you meant by "but that won't change what frigate shows"
I assuem when I manually delete recordigns Frigate will revise the used storage it shows sicne the recordigns are now missing?

Anyway, I don't want to mess with Frigate's internals, if I could make sure the favorited recordings are somehow also deleted due to my retention settings all would be well.

[ovizii]

Since I can't see the old recordings to unfavorite them, how do I get rid of them without confusing Frigate?

[NickM-27]

I mean that Frigate does not check automatically that the files in the file system are deleted because this is a very resource intensive task. What you can do is:

1. Delete all of the files
2. Restart Frigate with sync enabled https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/record#syncing-recordings-with-disk
3. Let it do its thing, and then disable sync.

[ovizii]

Awesome, exactly what I was looking for.

[balazsskorka]

I am pretty new to Frigate. Can you point me to some more step by step documentation for step 1 above? I am running Frigate as a HASS add-on and facing exactly the same challenge - want to delete any old recordings after having upgraded Frigate to 0.14. (I basically need to know where the files are located and how to access them) Thank you.

[ovizii]

In HA, in the menu on the left there is MEDIA and inside there is a folder FRIGATE. I wasn't sureh ow to delete from there so I connected via SSH to HA and manually deleted files inside /media/frigate - that is solely from memory, hope I didn't get any paths wrong.

[ovizii]

I mean that Frigate does not check automatically that the files in the file system are deleted because this is a very resource intensive task. What you can do is:

1. Delete all of the files
2. Restart Frigate with sync enabled https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/record#syncing-recordings-with-disk
3. Let it do its thing, and then disable sync.

I have a follow-up question:

After doing these steps I still see a discrepancy. Apparently I still have old files.

Actual storage use:

du -cksh /media/frigate/*
1020.2M /media/frigate/clips
0       /media/frigate/exports
6.1G    /media/frigate/recordings
7.1G    total

frigate report:

I am simply double-checking as frigate's logs suggest that it does delete files without DB entries. So how come I still have more storage used than frigate reports?

Anyway, if I am misreading the logs, I will simply manually delete snapshots/clips/recording manually.