diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.ts
index c6cdc3295a..0f78c20e2e 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+import {
+    faceIndex,
+    indexableFileIDs,
+    indexedAndIndexableCounts,
+    syncWithLocalFiles,
+} from "@/new/photos/services/face/db";
 import {
     isBetaUser,
     isInternalUser,
@@ -7,12 +13,6 @@ import type { EnteFile } from "@/new/photos/types/file";
 import { ComlinkWorker } from "@/next/worker/comlink-worker";
 import { ensure } from "@/utils/ensure";
 import type { Remote } from "comlink";
-import {
-    faceIndex,
-    indexableFileIDs,
-    indexedAndIndexableCounts,
-    syncWithLocalFiles,
-} from "./db";
 import type { FaceIndexerWorker } from "./indexer.worker";
 
 /**
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.worker.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.worker.ts
index a31db7550d..27608a31c8 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.worker.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.worker.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-import type { EnteFile } from "@/new/photos/types/file";
-import log from "@/next/log";
-import { fileLogID } from "utils/file";
 import {
     closeFaceDBConnectionsIfNeeded,
     markIndexingFailed,
     saveFaceIndex,
-} from "./db";
+} from "@/new/photos/services/face/db";
+import type { EnteFile } from "@/new/photos/types/file";
+import log from "@/next/log";
+import { fileLogID } from "utils/file";
 import { indexFaces } from "./f-index";
 import { putFaceIndex } from "./remote";
 import type { FaceIndex } from "./types";
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/logout.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/logout.ts
index 6d335e83df..1a6c5547e8 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/logout.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/logout.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
+import { clearFaceData } from "@/new/photos/services/face/db";
 import { clearFeatureFlagSessionState } from "@/new/photos/services/feature-flags";
 import log from "@/next/log";
 import { accountLogout } from "@ente/accounts/services/logout";
 import { clipService } from "services/clip-service";
 import DownloadManager from "./download";
 import exportService from "./export";
-import { clearFaceData } from "./face/db";
 import mlWorkManager from "./face/mlWorkManager";
 
 /**
diff --git a/web/packages/new/photos/services/embedding.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/embedding.ts
index a8c37ade97..38793680ed 100644
--- a/web/packages/new/photos/services/embedding.ts
+++ b/web/packages/new/photos/services/embedding.ts
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ type RemoteEmbedding = z.infer<typeof RemoteEmbedding>;
  * with remote (See: [Note: Ignoring embeddings for unknown files]).
  */
 export const syncRemoteFaceEmbeddings = async () => {
-    let sinceTime = faceEmbeddingSyncTime();
     // Include files from trash, otherwise they'll get unnecessarily reindexed
     // if the user restores them from trash before permanent deletion.
     const localFiles = (await getAllLocalFiles()).concat(
@@ -92,6 +91,9 @@ export const syncRemoteFaceEmbeddings = async () => {
     );
     const localFilesByID = new Map(localFiles.map((f) => [f.id, f]));
 
+    // Delete embeddings for files which are no longer present locally.
+    // pruneFaceEmbeddings(localFilesByID);
+
     const decryptEmbedding = async (remoteEmbedding: RemoteEmbedding) => {
         const file = localFilesByID.get(remoteEmbedding.fileID);
         // [Note: Ignoring embeddings for unknown files]
@@ -130,6 +132,8 @@ export const syncRemoteFaceEmbeddings = async () => {
         }
     };
 
+    let sinceTime = faceEmbeddingSyncTime();
+
     // TODO: eslint has fixed this spurious warning, but we're not on the latest
     // version yet, so add a disable.
     // https://github.com/eslint/eslint/pull/18286
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/db.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/face/db.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from web/apps/photos/src/services/face/db.ts
rename to web/packages/new/photos/services/face/db.ts
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/types.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/face/types.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from web/apps/photos/src/services/face/types.ts
rename to web/packages/new/photos/services/face/types.ts