Purge recordings by date?

[nickds1]

Hi - Love Birdnet-PI, now running over 6 months on an 8GB Pi4B

...which means I now have 19G in /home/pi/BirdSongs/Extracted and my 32GB uSD card is nearly full ... I know about the "purge" setting, and it is enabled, it's just that I need a bit of space for other stuff...

I don't really want all those recordings - 220,000 of them - the last couple of months would be nice. Is there anything I can do to cut off, say all of 2023, but leave the stats. Or even lose the 2023 stats too? I can provide an external link to the Pi (it has an external URL).

Thanks for a great project.

Nick

[MueJosh]

Hey,

You can delete them by selecting the year. The easy way is to log in via SSH and then deleting them like any other file / folder.
USER/BirdSongs/Extracted/By_Date

You could also backup the data (for example on windows with winscp or similar Apps)

The stats are still there (just DONT delete the birds.db file)

I hope this helps, if not- let us know.

[hpk60]

As my question concerns the purging as well, I post it here.

Can someone tell my, what happens, when I lock/unlock a detection on the recordings page.
Does it alter the file permissions, so that a file is not purged or does it add an info in the birds.db?