I added over 17000 users to my client’s Discourse installation via the API. I have to delete them now because reasons. I’ve worked out how to delete the users themselves via the Rails app as explained here: Bulk delete suspended users after import - #3 by vinothkannans This doesn’t seem to delete …

They’ll get deleted eventually. A process runs and moves unlinked images to a “tombstone” directory and then they get deleted 30 days later.

Oh cool. 30 days might be a bit long but that’s good to know. Thanks AGAIN Jay! :smiley: (Just for my own curiosity, what’d happen if one were to manually delete images from the Tombstone folder?)

[image] Frank_Bailey: (Just for my own curiosity, what’d happen if one were to manually delete images from the Tombstone folder?) It would be deleted and you couldn’t decide later that you want it back. Avatars ain’t that big, so it wouldn’t seem like a huge problem.

I think it is not 30 days. We have site setting for that as clean_orphan_uploads_grace_period_hours (default 48).

I’m pretty sure that clean_orphan_uploads_grace_period_hours is how long before stuff gets moved to the tombstone folder (e.g., What happens if I manually move images out of the tombstone directory? )

It becomes a bigger problem when you realize that 17000+ avatars takes up around 2.5 gigabytes of space… :wink:

You are right @pfaffman . Clean up job removes it from database only. :+1:

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 20, 2017, 5:41pm 8

I see. You might do a ./launcher cleanup to get back some space from Docker.

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