Hi Executive,

Agree You have no need for this, the maintenance tools did not solve this problem.

I suspect those who are moving towards virtual albums as the preferred mechanism might have differing options (specially with the ios app).

Unforseen mechanical or software challenges might create a circumstance where the  uploads folder does  not reflect the database.

I was lucky it was a minor number and the need to run an image duplicator software to locate and delete was a resort especially as i understood the challenge of getting piwigo to run a checksum against all the pics.

All i am saying is it might have some milage to considor how we bring the uploads folder back into sync with what the database holds.