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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/our-disk-space-disappeared-how-to-find-who-where/45798>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** server-resources\
**Created:** [2016年六月17日 00:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/our-disk-space-disappeared-how-to-find-who-where/45798 "2016-06-17T00:45:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![fearlessfrog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fearlessfrog/32/119653_2.png) [@fearlessfrog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fearlessfrog)\
**Post date:** [2016年六月18日 00:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/our-disk-space-disappeared-how-to-find-who-where/45798/8 "2016-06-18T00:00:53Z")

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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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-uploaded-files/45983):
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> 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…

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