Hey Wheels, I maxed out my allotted attachment space

[Dottleshead ★]

Apparently I've used 167% of my allotted space.  So I go in to clear out some space and I've got gazillions of pages that I can only delete one page at a time.  So after like 6 page deletes and only watching the percentage arrow move to the left from the $167 to the 164% mark -- I'm thinking there's got to be an easier way.  @Square Wheels

 

Can you please just zap them all so I can upload another 167%?  It should be good for another 5 years. Thanks.

 

 

Psssst.  I'm guessing most of this space is in my blogs.  I'd be interested in keeping those if you can figure it out.  Otherwise, meh, I'll post some future trips in there.  But they are kinda cool.

[petitepedal ★]

Hey...it happened to me too

[Longjohn ★]

3 hours ago, petitepedal said:

Hey...it happened to me too

Me three

[Ralphie ★]

2 hours ago, Longjohn said:

Me three

Uh oh!  Good thing I got in the habit of shrinking photos. Mine are just snaps of stoopid things, not art, so small or medium is fine. 

[maddmaxx ★]

 

[Ralphie ★]

22 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

 

You can sell your space!  You would have to have a post pics by proxy service. 

[maddmaxx ★]

I just went back and removed about 20 pages of pics from 2015 and 2016.  I had no idea that these cobwebs would still be cluttering the interwebs.

No wonder wheels is always running out of server space.

Put an age limit of some of this stuff wheels.  Ralph may lose some of the zombie magic but you won't be going broke.

[Further]

[smudge ★]

2 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Uh oh!  Good thing I got in the habit of shrinking photos. Mine are just snaps of stoopid things, not art, so small or medium is fine. 

That's what I do too.

[Further]

I dumped them, but I still see the pics in the threads ?

[donkpow]

Are you linking media or downloading and uploading to the site? I can't imagine the software stores linked media.

[Square Wheels]

I need to delete them one at a time too.

I cannot afford the next server size up, that's $100 a month, this one is already $50 a month, plus a lot each year in software costs.

@Redfacedwalrus, can you hook me up with an AWS guru?  This software has built in options to host images there, but you need to be a software engineer to even figure out how to sign up for an account on their site.

Each user gets 1,000 MB of space now, that's a lot.  If everyone used that, I'd go over my limit immediately.  I can up it to 1,250, but that's it.

Sorry guys.

[Square Wheels]

I did delete a bunch of the larger and older images.  In the admin section for files, there are 25 per page and over 2,000 pages of images.  I only see the image, the size, date posted, and poster.  I don't see the thread.  It's a crap shoot deleting them not knowing if it was important to you or not.

[maddmaxx ★]

1 hour ago, Square Wheels said:

I need to delete them one at a time too.

I cannot afford the next server size up, that's $100 a month, this one is already $50 a month, plus a lot each year in software costs.

@Redfacedwalrus, can you hook me up with an AWS guru?  This software has built in options to host images there, but you need to be a software engineer to even figure out how to sign up for an account on their site.

Each user gets 1,000 MB of space now, that's a lot.  If everyone used that, I'd go over my limit immediately.  I can up it to 1,250, but that's it.

Sorry guys.

You (users) can dump them a page at a time by clicking on the "all" in the filter setting to the right and then on the trash can that removes them.  I went from 167% to under 75% in about 3 minutes.

I had no idea that all that stuff, from my downloaded pictures, was being saved somewhere. 

Pictures of drones I was building in 2015 or whole calendar sets of pictures aren't really necessary any more. 

[Kirby]

How do I check and then how do I delete things?  Where is the "filter setting" maddmaxx mentioned?

[Square Wheels]

and just like that almost 10GBs removed.

[Square Wheels]

Just now, Kirby said:

How do I check and then how do I delete things?  Where is the "filter setting" maddmaxx mentioned?

https://squarewheelscycling.com/index.php?/attachments/

[maddmaxx ★]

Hey, clean up your neighborhood for wheels.  It's like extra cash to run the place, which is a lot like money.

[Kzoo]

I just did a little clean up.  Thanks for the tip on 'ALL' Maxi.  I got my % of allocation from 29 to 10% in just a couple minutes.

I figure that only 2% of what I post has any redeeming value so the crap from 2018 and before has an approximately 0.003% chance of having any value.

[maddmaxx ★]

16 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

I just did a little clean up.  Thanks for the tip on 'ALL' Maxi.  I got my % of allocation from 29 to 10% in just a couple minutes.

I figure that only 2% of what I post has any redeeming value so the crap from 2018 and before has an approximately 0.003% chance of having any value.

Me too.  I cleaned out everything before 2019.  If you see any pics that for some reason you have to keep, click on the thumbnail, enlarge it so that it's on a stand alone page and save it to your own downloads file.  Then when you delete that page you still have that "diamond" to repost someday

I like to post pics from trips or the secret lab so I must have been one of the bad offenders.

copy and paste stuff isn't an attachment and doesn't count against your file space as near as I can tell.

[Razors Edge ★]

Great tip on the "all".  I also then sorted on size, and that resulted in a quick halving of my allotment. 

[Square Wheels]

You guys are awesome.  I deleted a bunch and you did too.  Well over 10GB removed.

[Digital_photog ★]

Went through mine and cut it down from 20% to 3% deleted everything older than 2 years.  Deleted all files older than 6 months that were larger than 200k.  I usually post at 200k or less so not a huge number of large files to delete.  Took out all the smart-a$$ and silly ones too.  Hopes that helps a little.

[Zephyr]

Sorry Wheels.  Didnt realize I could trim my footprint here down.  Hope all this helps

[Digital_photog ★]

I am in other forums that have a 300k limit on uploads. Nothing larger will go through.  I don't know if that  option is available in this software or not.

 

[donkpow]

I using 193.54 MB of my 1.19 GB attachment limit. Does that make me a bad person?

[Digital_photog ★]

1 minute ago, donkpow said:

I using 193.54 MB of my 1.19 GB attachment limit. Does that make me a bad person?

NO.  You were a bad person before that. 

 

Just kidding but you did ask. 

[Wilbur ★]

BAM!  Every photo I ever posted is gone!   

[Square Wheels]

41 minutes ago, Digital_photog said:

I am in other forums that have a 300k limit on uploads. Nothing larger will go through.  I don't know if that  option is available in this software or not.

This software has that option too.

I set individual uploads to 10MB, each person ends up with a total of 1.25GB (more or less).

[Razors Edge ★]

8 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

This software has that option too.

I set individual uploads to 10MB, each person ends up with a total of 1.25GB (more or less).

10mb is pretty huge.  Even half that is generous.

[maddmaxx ★]

25 minutes ago, donkpow said:

I using 193.54 MB of my 1.19 GB attachment limit. Does that make me a bad person?

No.  That's covered by other things.

[Redfacedwalrus]

2 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

and just like that almost 10GBs removed.

I have some AWS certified co-workers but I'm not sure this is something we'd support since it's technically third-party. But it's looking like we're good now?

[maddmaxx ★]

Just now, Redfacedwalrus said:

I have some AWS certified co-workers but I'm not sure this is something we'd support since it's technically third-party. But it's looking like we're good now?

We always look good, even when we are bad.

[Square Wheels]

1 hour ago, Redfacedwalrus said:

I have some AWS certified co-workers but I'm not sure this is something we'd support since it's technically third-party. But it's looking like we're good now?

So, the values I see under List Accounts / Disk Used, that's how much each site is taking?

[Square Wheels]

1 hour ago, Razors Edge said:

10mb is pretty huge.  Even half that is generous.

Yeah, there were items over 300mb uploaded.  I'll leave it there for now.

[Redfacedwalrus]

10 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

So, the values I see under List Accounts / Disk Used, that's how much each site is taking?

That's a cPanel value and isn't very accurate, I think cPanel takes a check like once every few days since it takes up a bit of resources to measure. I'll PM you more accurate per-account numbers.

[Dottleshead ★]

For me, I figured out how to wipe out an entire page early.  But I didn't realize how much crap I do post.  If I delete one page, it drops 1%.  I've gotten it down to about 63% now.  It seems like this method of self-purging is still the best way?

[maddmaxx ★]

8 minutes ago, Dottles said:

For me, I figured out how to wipe out an entire page early.  But I didn't realize how much crap I do post.  If I delete one page, it drops 1%.  I've gotten it down to about 63% now.  It seems like this method of self-purging is still the best way?

last page, all, delete

last page, all, delete

last page, all, delete

The loop is very quick.

I know, I know.  I do come from the old school days of brute force programming.

[Ralphie ★]

I 

5 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

https://squarewheelscycling.com/index.php?/attachments/

Thanks!  I am only at 36%. 

[Dottleshead ★]

Just now, maddmaxx said:

last page, all, delete

last page, all, delete

last page, all, delete

The loop is very quick.

Not in my loop.  I've spent about 10 minutes and I've got a long way to go.  I think the software is calculating anything over X storage as 167%... and I'm thinking I've got a lot more than most folks.  I repeat.  1 page at my end removes roughly 1%.   I've got another 66 pages to purge.

[maddmaxx ★]

2 minutes ago, Dottles said:

Not in my loop.  I've spent about 10 minutes and I've got a long way to go.  I think the software is calculating anything over X storage as 167%... and I'm thinking I've got a lot more than most folks.  I repeat.  1 page at my end removes roughly 1%.   I've got another 66 pages to purge.

OK, 4 minutes instead of 3.

[Dottleshead ★]

Just now, maddmaxx said:

OK, 4 minutes instead of 3.

Didn't I mention I was already at the 10 minute mark?  Oh nevermind.  You're badgering me.  wait..  Is badgering even a thing?  Isn't @Digital_photog from Wisconsin?  I'd bet he'd know.  Or is that @smudge?

[Dottleshead ★]

Well, it's rocking and rolling over here.  I'm now down to 50%. Please note that was 4 minutes ago for those of you counting.

[Indy]

Cleaned, I'm using 0 now.

[Razors Edge ★]

10 minutes ago, Dottles said:

I've got another 66 pages to purge.

I've got 120 pages of images and am way below the limit.  I erased by size.  More bang for my buck!

[Dottleshead ★]

1 minute ago, Razors Edge said:

I've got 120 pages of images and am way below the limit.  I erased by size.  More bang for my buck!

Again, I think most of my storage comes from my bike trip photos in Idaho and Montana.  Those babies are huge.

[Digital_photog ★]

15 minutes ago, Dottles said:

Didn't I mention I was already at the 10 minute mark?  Oh nevermind.  You're badgering me.  wait..  Is badgering even a thing?  Isn't @Digital_photog from Wisconsin?  I'd bet he'd know.  Or is that @smudge?

Hey noob,  I'm a displaced Buckeye over in the whoisyour state.  @smudge is a yooper. or is she a badger who yooped too much? 

[jsharr ★]

Just erased 93 pages of attachments.

I am at 0% 

[maddmaxx ★]

18 minutes ago, Dottles said:

Didn't I mention I was already at the 10 minute mark?  Oh nevermind.  You're badgering me.  wait..  Is badgering even a thing?  Isn't @Digital_photog from Wisconsin?  I'd bet he'd know.  Or is that @smudge?

tick tock.

[Digital_photog ★]

One thing to think about is if we take them to 0 many may not see very new posts.  Not everyone lives her 24 hours a day and they may miss something very important.