XF 1.5 Clean Up or Prune Attachments

[jordanr]

My internal data folder is 19 GB on socaltrailriders.org.

This size makes the site time consuming to move and more expensive to host.

Is there a good way to prune or clean up what is there in the internal data directory?

I converted from vB. I wonder if there are duplicated or useless files I am hosting.

 

[Paul B]

The data and internal_data directories are specific to XF - they are unlikely to have any relevance to VB.

Anything you delete from those directories is going to affect your XF installation and result in missing images.

 

[jordanr]

Is there a way to prune older images?

I am surprised we have so many attachments, but I guess we do.

 

[Paul B]

You can use the Attachment Browser function in the ACP to do that.

 

[AndyB]

This size makes the site time consuming to move

What do you mean by this?

 

[AndyB]

and more expensive to host.

Shouldn't be an issue.

 

[jordanr]

Moving hosts and yes it is more expensive...

I am thinking I could run a script and say resize all images over 1 MB down to 1 MB and see if that helps....always seems bad to remove member content.

 

[Paul B]

The script would also need to update the database entries, as the size data is stored per attachment.

 

[jordanr]

Thanks for the responses. I installed this one: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/image-resizer.2923/

Trying to make that work.

Appreciate the help.

 

[Paul B]

You will need to post in the resource thread for support with it.

 

[jordanr]

Ok. Thank you again.