I have a small server with only 20G of storage with my Discourse running on it. So I can’t let people upload too big files——of course if it is very important it should still be uploaded, but if not so important, it should not.
So I set the biggest upload file size 100M.
But I see many not so important files uploaded and the back-up quickly increases.
Here is a really small file I uploaded as an example:
What if I just delete such codes. Will the file “try file.csv” really be deleted from the server and will not cause any more burden on Discourse Backup File?
Could you please confirm that, in the latest versions (v.2.0.2 and so), when an administrator deletes topics/posts with attachments from UI, either individually or in bulk, those attachments are never removed from the server?
In case they aren’t, what’s the best approach to totally removed from server?
when are uploaded files to private messages are deleted?
Additionally, it would be great to have something like a “self-destroying” private message which will delete the sender and receiver message including the attached files after X hours /days.