How do delete Attachement folder?

[mike4001]

Hi,

During my Home Assistant Backups I noticed that my Signal Addon Backup is using almost 1,3 GB of space.

Looking into the compressed backup file I am seeing that this is mostly in the attachement folder (images and videos sent into a group where the Signal Number is a member of).

Is it possible to delete these files? If yes, how? I don' really have access to the File structure of Home Assistant Addons.
Is it possible that they are not downloaded in the first place?

Thanks

[mike4001]

OK, I found the attatchment folder under

\Home-Assistant-IP\addon_configs\1315902c_signal_messenger\attachments

So there I can just delete the files?

Second question remains. Is it possible to not get the folder this big in the first place?

[bbernhard]

If you are using the normal/native mode, there is the ìgnore_attachments` parameter (https://bbernhard.github.io/signal-cli-rest-api/#/Messages/get_v1_receive__number_)

[mike4001]

Thank you for your answer but I do not see any ìgnore_attachment command in your posted link?

[kamuridesu]

@mike4001 Here

[LordShadowen]

I have a similar issue as OP - large attachments folder, which I don't really need or want.

If I understood the comments correctly, if I was using the normal or native mode, I would be in charge of somehow calling the receive API, so I could control if I wanted attachments or not.

But I'm using the json-rpc mode, so messages are just automatically being received (in real time) and stored without me doing anything (correct?)

And it seems that in this case, there's no option to specify if I want the attachments or not - they are just downloaded and stored automatically.

So - if all of these assumptions are correct - is there any workaround or trick I could use to disable this? If not, I guess then I have a "feature request" to add such an option :)

[bbernhard]

I have a similar issue as OP - large attachments folder, which I don't really need or want.

If I understood the comments correctly, if I was using the normal or native mode, I would be in charge of somehow calling the receive API, so I could control if I wanted attachments or not.

But I'm using the json-rpc mode, so messages are just automatically being received (in real time) and stored without me doing anything (correct?)

And it seems that in this case, there's no option to specify if I want the attachments or not - they are just downloaded and stored automatically.

So - if all of these assumptions are correct - is there any workaround or trick I could use to disable this? If not, I guess then I have a "feature request" to add such an option :)

That's correct. Unfortunately, the upstream signal-cli currently does not provide an option for excluding the attachment download in jsonRpc mode. At least I couldn't find anything in the documentation.

I guess what I could do is add a configurable background task, which automatically cleans up the attachment folder. But not sure if this is a good idea - feels like a workaround :/

In any case, what you could do right now is to use the /v1/attachments endpoints to list and delete the attachments (periodically) yourself.