[Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 19/02/2008, Frank Fulchiero <fful at conncoll.edu> wrote:
> We allow uploads of up to 70 mb in our wiki, to support QuickTime
>  movies.
>  I have been cleaning up videos that are not used by deleting the page
>  created when the asset is uploaded, using the Delete button at the
>  top, when logged in as WikiSysop.
>  I notice the images/archive folder is over 1 GB in size. Can I safely
>  delete everything inside it, just leaving the empty archive folder?
>  We have a large hard drive, but create a new image every week for
>  backup, and it would save time.
>  This is in MediaWiki 1.5.4, PHP 4.4.7, MySQL 5.0.18
>  Please, no lectures on updating, will do so at end of semester :-)
>
>  Thanks,
>  Frank Fulchiero
>  Digital Media Specialist
>  Connecticut College

I do not really know, though it would seem logical that you can remove
them.  But if you're sure you don't need the content anymore, and your
main concern is disk space, I suppose a safe way to deal with this is
to replace the content with an empty string.
Still, if the images/archive folder is only a few GB in size, I
wouldn't bother.  Disk space isn't that expensive.

Kind regards,

Herta

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