Deleting of a (single) External Library does nothing about immich

[Southpaw1496]

I also had this issue, and I was able to work around it by using the API. I used an http client called Paw (also known as RapidAPI for Mac), but you could also accomplish it using cURL. The abstract steps are as follows:

1. Obtain an API Key
2. GET /api/libraries to find the ID of the library you want to delete (use the header x-api-key: <KEY> to authenticate)
3. DELETE /api/libraries/<id> (where <id> is the ID of the library you want to delete).

Once you have your API key, I think this would be the way to do it in cURL (but I haven't tested it).

1. export IMMICH_API_KEY=<API KEY>
2. curl "<YOUR IMMICH IP/DOMAIN>/api/libraries" -H "x-api-key: $IMMICH_API_KEY"
3. Find the id of the library that has the name you want in the JSON you get back.
4. curl -X "DELETE" "<IMMICH IP/DOMAIN>/api/libraries/<LIBRARY ID>" -H "x-api-key: $IMMICH_API_KEY"

[alextran1502]

This issue has been fixed and will be available in the next release

[Shurov]

I was able to work around it by using the API

Thanks for the workaround! Your detailed instructions helped me as well - first set (with 3 steps) worked perfectly via Postman.

Still would keep this ticket open for the bug fix with non-working deletion from UI.

[Shurov]

This issue has been fixed and will be available in the next release

Thanks for this!
I'm thinking, as an additional idiot-proof (like me) protection - thinking of the root cause, if the main photo dir included everything: photo sources themselves as well as Immich technical folder (with uploads) that caused a circle reference.... Maybe it's possible somehow to check this in a dir structure (compare dir pathes) and exclude immich folder with thumbs from the search/fetch/etc?