Is there a way to delete old/irrelevant uploads?

tgxworld · January 10, 2017, 2:00am

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

lib/tasks/uploads.rake

main


      
          db = RailsMultisite::ConnectionManagement.current_db
          
          puts "Cleaning up uploads and thumbnails for '#{db}'..."
          
          if Discourse.store.external?
            puts "This task only works for internal storages."
            exit 1
          end
          
          puts <<~TEXT
          This task will remove upload records and files permanently.
          
          Would you like to take a full backup before the clean up? (Y/N)
          TEXT
          
          if STDIN.gets.chomp.downcase == "y"
            puts "Starting backup..."
            backuper = BackupRestore::Backuper.new(Discourse.system_user.id)
            backuper.run
            exit 1 unless backuper.success
          end

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

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

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Is there a way to delete old/irrelevant uploads?

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