Media Uploader Files in Use

cospropcollection

Hi Everyone,

Currently our media uploader is showing that we have about 293MiB in use. This has been increasing for a few months now even though we have been successfully importing/assigning images to object records. I was under the impression that these were temp files that would clear automically after a certain length of time if not assigned to a record. Or is there a caUtils that I need to be running to clear these files? Thanks!

darrigan

As far as I know, there is no automatic deletion.
You can use caUtils to remove unused media:
sudo ./caUtils remove-unused-media
This will simply display unused media, for verification purposes (not for deletion).
Then to remove them, you have to enter:
sudo ./caUtils remove-unused-media -d

Note that you can have help about functions by entering, for example:
sudo ./caUtils help remove-unused-media

seth

It should clean up automatically after a certain time. If permissions are set such that the web server can't delete the files then no clean up will occur. This is the second complaint in a week about this, so perhaps something else is going on. We will look into it.

Note that sudo ./caUtils help remove-unused-media will not clean up the media uploader temporary space. It only removed unlinked database media, not temp files.

darrigan

That's good to know! There are times when I shouldn't respond.😅

cospropcollection

Thank you both for your responses. We have tried clearing caches as well as unused media but that didn't help our storage situation much (we are using significantly more storage than we would expect to be using for the amount of objects and images we have). I also thought it could be an issue where I need to remove deleted representations. I had quite a few files come up when I ran that caUtils command but got a bit intimidated by the full backup warning.

Seth where do the temp folders live for the media uploader?

Thanks again for your help!