They’re not cached images, they’re stored images in your database. If they deleted after any time then your server wouldn’t function, since any old post you loaded would have the images deleted.
I just changed to another distro (so I had to set everything up again) and I simply did not backup the pictrs volume because how much time it would've taken to transfer it from one machine to another. And well, it seems like what you said is not true. I can load any old post and I will still see its images.
The proxied images will be refetched from the origin if they cant be found locally. There should also be a configurable maximum size for the image cache but I dont see it mentioned in the pictrs readme. So like Dessalines said you need to ask the developer directly.
Pictures you (or your users. if any) uploaded yourself should be gone, though.
I've turned off proxying myself and purged what I could find from pictrs and it's still taking up way more storage than it should. And it's a messy black box where I have no idea what's really going on. Another reason why I want to switch to Piefed.
You're using the ProxyAllImages setting then? Otherwise it is storing every image, and it does not delete them.
Yeah I am using the "proxy all images" image mode. Though I still don't get why the images aren't being deleted at some point.
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