With S3 enabled, can shared uploads be safely deleted?

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S3 and CDN are enabled, so I think it’s safe to delete the content in these directories, right?

root@discourse:/var/discourse/shared/standalone/uploads/default# du -sh *
650M optimized
1.4G original
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Did you migrate the uploads to S3?

Of you look at your old posts do those images point to the S3 cdn?

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Yeah, I migrated, and yes content of old posts point to the S3 CDN.

Isn’t the migration script supposed to delete that old stuff?

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My understanding is that the migration doesn’t explicitly delete those but rather the posts get edited removing references to those old uploads, implicitly leading to them being deleted later by a recurring job. (Jobs::PurgeDeletedUploads which runs once every 24 hours)

I don’t know what sort of rate limiting might be going on with that job so perhaps cleaning up after a migration happens gradually if there are a lot of uploads. If you did the migration very recently, maybe wait and see if those numbers change after that job next runs.

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