Is there a way to delete old/irrelevant uploads?

[MerryMinstrel (Daniel)]

@zogstrip

If uploads aren’t deleted, then they are referenced somewhere.

I have even tried to destroy posts via ruby console. Even after that uploads are still kept on the server.

@tgxworld

How did you handle the migration? There is a rake task that will migrate your uploads to S3.

I used this exact rake task. When it finished all of my old uploads were still kept on the server. After that I rebaked all of the posts with uploads to update picture links.

@tgxworld

Enabling the following site setting will clean up uploads from deleted topics.

This setting is enabled on my site for as long as I can remember.

@tgxworld

By inefficiency, do you mean old topics with huge uploads that no one ever reads anymore?

Not exactly. I am more concerned with uploads users don’t even have access to. For example, user creates a post with picture in it and site administrator deletes this post. Picture in this post will be kept on the server. And I don`t see any timeout on that. I can go and take a look on posts which were deleted more than a year ago and all uploads are still there, they even have migrated to S3.