Remove unused images

[Sejmou]

Hi,

first of all, thanks for the plugin, I really like it!

However, at the moment, my only real use case for this is removing unused images.
I have managed to get this working like so:

Setup (in plugin settings -> Settings for finding orphaned files)

1. Make sure 'Exclude files in directories' is set and Excalidraw folder is added to excludes below (otherwise might delete SVGs etc. used internally)
2. Make sure 'Exclude files with the given filetypes' is set and md is added below (don't want orphaned notes to be included in the output file!)
3. Add * to 'Filetypes to delete per command', or to be safe, define specific image file extensions

Actual cleanup procedure

1. In Command Palette: Execute Find orphaned files
2. Check output in orphaned files output.md (root of vault)
3. If OK, run Delete orphaned files with certain extension and confirm
4. To keep things clean, remove orphaned files output.md

Would be nice if those steps could just be automated, so that one only has to run a high-level 'Remove unused images' command.

As a bonus, maybe a popup could be displayed that lists the paths of the images and allows one to quickly preview them (though I can imagine this is a lot of work 😅).

What do you think of that? 🙂

Best regards,
Samo

[Sejmou]

I just realized that there is another plugin that pretty much does exactly what I want:
https://github.com/sandorex/nuke-orphans-plugin

As I really just want to quickly remove any unused attachments (which includes images) and all my images are stored in attachments folders, the 'Trash orphaned attachments' command does just what I needed.

There's another extension focusing on deleting images specifically - could be an option for others too: https://github.com/ozntel/oz-clear-unused-images-obsidian

Closing this for now.