Features/Memories archive

Memories archive

Browse every retained generated memory from the Memories page, and set how long generated memories stay in your library.

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Gallery Memories page showing retained generated memories grouped by the date they were shown

Memories now have a home

The daily memory lane is fine for today's highlights. It is a poor place to find something Gallery generated last week. The new Memories page gives generated memories a permanent browsing surface in the Library section of the web sidebar.

The full-screen memory viewer is unchanged. There is now a history index in front of it, and opening a card from the archive tells Gallery you came from history rather than the daily carousel.

Browse retained memories by date

The archive groups retained generated memories by the date they were shown. Older recaps stay readable that way, and each card carries the memory's title, subtitle, preview assets, date and saved state.

A local search field narrows the page. No server round trip. An All/Saved filter jumps straight to the memories you deliberately kept.

You control how long memories last

Admins configure generated memory retention from Administration → Settings → Memories. The default keeps unsaved generated memory records for 365 days, which gives the archive real history without letting old rows grow forever.

Set a custom day count for a shorter or longer archive. Set it to 0 and the records are kept indefinitely.

Cleanup stays careful

Retention only removes unsaved generated memory records. Saved memories are kept whatever their age, and cleanup still removes links to hidden, archived or deleted assets even when retention is set to forever.

So the archive can be generous. Stale asset references still get cleared out underneath it.

Ready for rule-generated memories

Recent trip and birthday memories now create richer server-defined titles and subtitles. The archive gives those generated stories somewhere to accumulate, so a trip recap or birthday set can be rediscovered after its original carousel window has passed.

Read the full documentation on GitHub

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