Hello All,
I have a long running Dolphin site that has accumulated many, many thousands of photos over the years. These photos are taking up a huge amount of disk space now and God only knows how many are from users who haven't been active on the site for many years. To make it easier, I'm considering deleting ALL member uploaded photos and starting the photos fresh again. Current users can reload photos they want to share. I'll get a bit of grief from some users, but it could be a great chance to really freshen things up so I figure most will be fine with it. Plus, the members no longer active won't miss their photos and the site will benefit from having the space.
When I go to the admin panel, it only shows a few images at a time. Seriously, I'm thinking I have at minimum a 100,000 photos uploaded over ten years. Is there a trick I can use like maybe delete the photos module and then reinstall it? Anyone tried something like this before?
Thanks for any and all thoughts!
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That would do it, but it's sad to think a few hundred loyal members will loose photos because of a few thousand clowns. As such, I'd seriously consider other options including a purge of all members who haven't accessed the site since a certain date.
This can be done via Admin/Settings/Advanced Settings/Pruning. The setting there will allow you to delete profiles that haven't been accessed for xxx days, but whether it clears the members photos and stuff stored in other modules is something I don't know.
If it doesn't, someone could write a database query for you that deleted photos that don't have an existing member ID. Unfortunately assistance like that usually costs on this Forum unless AlexT has time to show you how to do it.
Can you let us know how you go because you're not alone on this one.
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John42,
Thank you for the idea. I'll try deleting a dead profile and see what happens to their photos. Maybe I'll get lucky and find that it takes out all of their stuff.
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The Profile Pruning module can help with clearing out specific data (eg. Photos) posted on the site by members. Paypal email is jeromemingo@gmail.com - http://www.boonex.com/market/posts/modzzz |
Sounds absolutely essential for an existing site. Mine hasn't reached the problem stage yet, but this is a mod I'll end up purchasing sooner or later. |
Go to your cpanel file manager where dophin is installed. And delete the photos data folder eg at /public_html/modules/boonex/photos/files/data the photos are in the data folder. Delete the data folder and replace it with new one. Look, don't open that folder, too many photos will load and crash your browser. Download fresh copy of Dolphin and upload .htaccess file from the /modules/photos/files/data folder from your computer into the corresponding data folder in your server.
After you delete the data folder, Empty trash bin on your in the file manager to finally release the space.
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That will delete every photo owned by current users as well. In most instances such a drastic action would destroy user confidence and destroy your site. @jimmyboo suggests some of his members may be upset, but that's questionable. I don't think I'd like to see any site I'm on purge my photos without some very good reason. From what I can see, that action can be avoided for $20.
I guess some people are serious and some aren't.
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That will delete every photo owned by current users as well. In most instances such a drastic action would destroy user confidence and destroy your site. @jimmyboo suggests some of his members may be upset, but that's questionable. I don't think I'd like to see any site I'm on purge my photos without some very good reason. From what I can see, that action can be avoided for $20.
I guess some people are serious and some aren't.
Yes you are right. My method is the last resort if all else fails. I should have added that earlier
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