ollama - 💡(How to fix) Fix Introduce some smart way to identify and cleanup unfinished downloads to avoid space wastage [2 comments, 2 participants]

TL;DR

Implement an option to immediately prune unfinished downloads in Ollama, allowing users to clean up incomplete downloads without relying on the current incremental removal process upon restarts.

Guidance

• Introduce a user-accessible feature to manually trigger the pruning of unfinished downloads, ensuring users have control over when and how incomplete downloads are removed.
• Consider adding a confirmation prompt to ensure users intentionally choose to delete unfinished downloads, preventing accidental data loss.
• Review the current restart-based pruning mechanism to understand its logic and thresholds (e.g., why it removes downloads in increments like 85% to 75% to 65%) to inform the design of the new immediate pruning feature.
• Evaluate the storage and performance implications of immediate pruning versus the current approach to ensure the new feature does not introduce unintended consequences.

Notes

The exact implementation details, such as how the pruning is currently handled upon restarts and how the new feature should be integrated into the user interface, are not specified and would require further investigation into Ollama's codebase and design documentation.

Recommendation

Apply workaround: Implement the immediate pruning feature as described, allowing users to have direct control over managing their unfinished downloads, which addresses the core issue of providing a user-friendly way to clean up incomplete downloads without waiting for the application's current removal process.