Cleaning up old tracked objects

[gu3stZA]

I've got a few older tracked objects in the tracked objects menu, which have no thumbnails or details (e.g. they aren't even clickable). I'm assuming my database and recordings/clips got out of sync somehow. Is there a way to clean these old things up without deleting the entire database? I think deleting the database will fix it, but I will lose my login users and maybe some other things...

[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

Based on the available documentation, Frigate provides a sync_recordings feature to handle situations where database entries exist for files that have been deleted(1). This feature checks the file system and removes orphaned database entries(2).

To enable this cleanup, add the following to your Frigate configuration(1):

record:
  sync_recordings: True

(1)

However, there's an important limitation: this feature is designed to fix variations in files, not to completely delete all entries in the database(2). If you deleted large amounts of media, the documentation recommends stopping Frigate, deleting the frigate.db database file (located at /config/frigate.db by default(3)), and restarting the service(2).

Regarding your concern about losing user logins: user authentication data is stored in the database(4). If you delete the database, you will lose your configured users(3)(4). The database will clean itself up over time if you delete the media files and leave the database intact(4).

For your specific situation with unclickable tracked objects that have no thumbnails, enabling sync_recordings should help clean up these orphaned entries without requiring a full database reset(1)(2).

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📚 Sources:

1. Recording
2. [Support]: Frigate database not cleaning up missing recordings after manual file deletion
3. Full Reference Config
4. clean up database

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[gu3stZA]

I have tried the sync_recordings option, but this didn't do anything to fix tracked objects (I didn't really expect it to, based on the documentation, but tried it anyway).

[hawkeye217]

You should be able to still right click or long-press on the objects in Explore and choose the delete button in the top right corner. If not, you could try making an HTTP API call. If that still doesn't work, you could manually purge them from your database using SQL.

[gu3stZA]

Doh - now I feel silly. I didn't even realise you could right-click on these... :/

[hawkeye217]

No worries! Glad it's working for you.