I wanted to know how to delete files when we don’t want them. Like sometimes users upload large size files and upload multiple copies of the same file. How can I delete the repeatedly uploaded items and keep my disk space clean? We run a blogging community forum at http://ask.mybloggertricks.com and we often need to upload graphic images and some css files

I have just one new question in mind that is troubling me. How does Discourse handles illegal hosting done by users using the PM system? What if a user uploads large files via PM and then links to it from an external source. Will cleanup task delete them or not?

Good question! Illegal activity in Messages is another reason admins need visibility into them, cc: @downey. There is not a way at the moment to browse the largest file uploads but that would be a good thing to have eventually.

I am glad you agreed here. I will be more than pleased to have this option added in future updates :innocent:

[image] Mohammad: How does Discourse handles illegal hosting done by users using the PM system? What if a user uploads large files via PM and then links to it from an external source. Will cleanup task delete them or not? “Illegal” is going to depend on the jurisdiction. For example, in the United States, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act provides safe harbor for service providers (such as someone running a Discourse site) against actions of their users. As long as the service provider responds to notice of infringing activity, and can produce good records of what that user did or did not do (emphasis hint for @codinghorror), and how they responded to that user and that user’s infringing content, then they are generally not liable for those actions. In other words, it may not (or may, depending on where you are) be the job of the service provider to police and snoop on its users’ activities. [image] Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is United States federal law that creates a conditional 'safe harbor' for online service providers (OSP), a group which includes Internet service providers (ISP) and other Internet intermediaries, by shielding them for their own acts of direct copyright infringement (when they make unauthorized copies) as well as shielding them from potential secondary liability for the infringing acts of others. OCILLA was passed as a part of ...

Sure, Nginx or Apache server logs would exist in all cases for all websites. So you are covered. This is real basic web stuff. Whether the uploads are illegal or not, the site owner might not appreciate a user who signs up, achieves trust level 1 (necessary to message at all) and then posts 1 GB of files per day in PMs.

Still no such feature? How can I remove uploaded image?

This are a good news, thank you. Can I delete 'em manually?

For the avoidance of doubt, when a post is edited and the only instance anywhere of an image/dropbox linked image is removed, is that image classed as not being used anywhere? Currently it is viewable when reviewing the edit history, something I wasn’t expecting.

[image] anon47420739: an image/dropbox linked image Those are two different things. An image has been uploaded and has a Upload record in the database. A “dropbox linked image” is a link to an image that is “served” to the clients (browsers) by dropbox. The automated cleanup is only about uploaded images. Not linked ones.

How to Delete Uploaded Files?

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zogstrip (Régis HANOL) May 25, 2018, 3:26pm 16

Uploaded files that aren’t used anywhere are automatically removed.

Are you talking about an image that is used somewhere?

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