Your see, the server I rented is not very bid. And I find people like to upload attachments in the discourse. I have already set the maximum size of the attachments, while still the discourse Backup file is still too big. Is it possible that I can search for the big attachments(say bigger than 10 M…

The default query for it was added in DEV: Add a default query for Top 50 Largest Uploads · discourse/discourse-data-explorer@931bbb6 · GitHub and it looks like this: [Screenshot%20from%202018-12-24%2014-10-04]

If you’re OK with those links being broken, you can use the Unix find command to locate them in the uploads directory. Something like https://superuser.com/questions/628217/use-find-to-find-and-delete-large-files-of-a-certain-type

Is the upload folder /var/discourse/shared/standalone/uploads There are 2 subfolders in the “upload” folder, can I just delete things in the 2 subfolders? Anyway, I still fell it too “dangerous” to delete things in this way.

[image] xiasummer: There are 2 subfolders in the “upload” folder, can I just delete things in the 2 subfolders? Yes. [image] xiasummer: Anyway, I still fell it too “dangerous” to delete things in this way. You’re breaking things on purpose, here. You can see what would happen like th…

I wouldn’t be so concerned about how much space they’re taking up without considering their potential usefulness. For example, if a topic had been archived, unlisted and had not been visited in a long time (i.e. the chances anyone might still be interested in the attachment are extremely rare) then…

The word dangerous I mentioned is not I’m afraid of deleting the attachments, I’m actually afraid of miss deleting other files eapecially some system components that will kill the discourse system. If I can delete these attachments one by one, I will delete them.

Only uploads are in the uploads directory. You’ll want to make a backup. :slight_smile:

Can we search and find the big attachments?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 5, 2018, 6:20am 2

This would be a very useful canned data explorer query @rishabh.

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Can we search and find the big attachments?

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