Image Database storage

[NigelVanHattum]

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I am running mealie on my kubernetes cluster without a mounted disk to it. This causes a loss for all images whenever te application restarts.

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I would like the option to store my images within my postgreSQL database. That way they can be stored outside my cluster.

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This would seriously increase the database usage of the application. So maybe we can add it as a optional parameter that enables this function.

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[NigelVanHattum]

Since I'm also using only public images, an option could also be that the application stores the URL to the image. Picking it up from the internet instead of the server.

[ChipSkylark37]

As another variant of this, are we able to access the image storage of Mealie?

I have images that I would like to tweak, and see that in the JSON the image identified, but unsure of how to access in a Docker Container.

The reason that I want to access / modify the image is that the rotation of many images are 'wrong' and as much as I rotate and re-upload, a lot of the times they keep their sideways rotation, likely based on the orientation of how I took the picture initially.