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Removing your contributions retrospectively
Here's a thing you may have wondered. How to remove some of your group contributions from a group where you are no longer a member? The very first problem is to find the images. For that you have several options.
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Search on your photos with the group name

You or someone else may have mentioned the group name on your photo pages. If the group name is unique, then go to your "Photos". Then open the drop down menu from the "Photos". Write the group name there in the search field as an exact phrase between quotation marks:

If you do not get all upper cases correctly, it does not matter. The search is not case sensitive. You will get all images where the group name is mentioned.

Search for your name on the group search

If the group name is very generic (e.g. Roses), then you need to go to the group, and try using the group search. Go to the group frontpage and click "Search?" on the page header tool bar. Then try to search with your account name, or with your nickname. You may have posted additional links where your account name appears, or your nickname appears if it is mentioned on comments. People of course also thank you on their own images, but sometimes they mention your name also on comments under your images.

And if even that does not help, then you have to browse through the group contributions to find at least one of those images.

However, when you find one, then it is easy to proceed. Open one of them in the group context. Do that from right margin's "See also..." section. First click the group name, and then click "Your contributions" below the film strip.


Next click "Contributions by: Your Name" link on right margin, just above the "ACTIONS" menu.

You will get all of your non member contributions on that group listed. Finally choose small images, and you will get to see "[x]" delete button for all of your contributions.

I also started to go though all of my own photos, as a part of my personal spring cleaning project. The followings turned out. I had and still have several contributions on groups where the only admin has turned out inactive, and has no Club subscription. So, I joined such groups. Then I quit the group to get option to delete all images when leaving. Faster way if there are number of contributions on the same group.

Some group administrators had turned the inactive groups private when leaving. I do not know what the logic is there, because one then can not join such group. There is no-one letting in. So, I had to remove my contributions on such groups one by one..

12 comments

Colin Ashcroft said:

I have already removed all photos from a Group when I leave but I this is different and helpful information.
3 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Colin Ashcroft:

Article updated. I realized there are some better ways to search.
3 years ago

Clickity Click said:

Making a copy of this Sami, thanks for sharing!
3 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Clickity Click:

Article updated. I realized there are some better ways to search.
3 years ago

Clickity Click replied to :

Hi Sami, will reprint thanks for researching this. :)

I've been thinking of those groups that "invited" a photograph to be added. I doubt that I would remember all of them.

Be Well
3 years ago

Colin Ashcroft replied to :

i have looked again. Thanks
3 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… said:

The remaining problems is to find contributions on groups that you do not even recall. I tried to find effective way to search or browse to find them. But no luck so far.

An example. Only by browsing images one by one, I may discover having some contributions at the group =editing images=:

www.ipernity.com/group/267528/doc/by/499633?with=32763905

Although, what you do not recall, it very likely does not matter. So, the need to remove some of your non member contributions is often very good. For example the group no longer represent your values or principals.
3 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to :

Well, as said, what you do not know/remember very likely does not matter.

There is even no way to seek what one does not know/remember. For example "Organize" tool only lists the groups where one belongs to. Nothing else.
3 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to :

A new chapter for me, to continue with the spring clean.

I started to go through my own photos, one by one, starting from the oldest:

1) Open photo

2) If unanswered group suggestions, then "ignore".

3) If strange contributions under "See also...", then open in new tab, and deal with them.

4) I check the group activity. If I seem to have number of contributions, and the admin(s) is/are non club member(s), then I join the group. Then I quit the group and delete all contributions when leaving. If only few contributions and the admin is active, I remove my contributions one by one.

5) On the first tab I proceed to next from the margin arrows.

Some people have done a dirty trick, and changed the group private, when leaving ipernity. So, admin is inactive, and is not there to accept members to join. Then the only way is to remove the contributions one by one.
3 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… said:

Bookmark... Where I left the personal cleaning project on March 17:
www.ipernity.com/doc/serola/33631645
3 years ago

ୱ Kiezkickerde ( ͡°… said:

Ein einfacherer Weg zum entfernen der eigenen Fotos in Gruppen, in denen man noch Mitglied ist, führt über den "Organisieren" - Button oben auf der Seite. Da drauf klicken, dann anschliessend auf das Gruppen - Tab im Organizer klicken, die entsprechende Gruppe aufrufen und dann ein Häkchen in das oben befindliche "Nur meine Inhalte anzeigen"- Feld machen. Die Dokumente, die man dann entfernen möchte einfach nach unten ziehen.
3 years ago ( translate )

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to ୱ Kiezkickerde ( ͡°…:

Yes, that is a great tool, if you are a member, and want to remove only some of the contributions.
3 years ago