Our disk space disappeared - how to find who/where?

[fearlessfrog]

Ok, some new information the more we dig.

This looks like a Discourse bug somehow. The user with the 9 GB of files has the same 13 files that were uploaded as a set repeated 1728 times, i.e. 22,464 duplicate file uploads.

I’ll raise a bug and hopefully we can remove these plus stop it happening again.

Bug is reported here. Will welcome any help/advice

Duplicate Uploaded Files

Hi! We’re on 1.6.0.beta8 and recently experience a quick disappearance of our local server disk space, as detailed here: We’ve found out that one user has taken 9GB of uploads disk space, despite not uploading that many files (file limits kept to defaults etc). Looking at the upload::original_filename values it seems like we have a repeating set of 14 files duplicated 1729 times, i.e. 24,206 new files. The files themselves in that 14 file set are roughly the right size that when repeated wo…