XF 2.1 Identify unused attachments on the server...?

[7emper5i]

Hi there,

is there a way to identify and delete unused and thus orphaned files (images, attachments, etc pp..)?

The forum folder is about 30GB large..., there are certainly unused files in it.


Greetings,
Philip

 

[Chris D]

There shouldn’t be any unused files. XF automatically deletes attachments which are unused (such as a post that is never completed, or a post that is deleted).

You may need to be more specific about what the files are and where they are stored.

 

[Kevin]

You may need to be more specific about what the files are and where they are stored.

Chris, which Cron job should be doing it? On a test install I've done a batch update to purge most of the old content but it doesn't appear to have deleted anything from the /internal_data/attachments folder. I've manually run the daily & hourly cleanup jobs and verified that the file IDs don't show in the attachments table.