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Title: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 10:43:21 AM
The disk space being used by PM Attachements is getting too large.  Heads up ... I plan on cleaning out old attachments in 1 week on Feb 15.  I will start by cleaning out attachments older than 1 year and see what that does to disk space usage.  So you have 1 week to save any old attachment you care to keep.

-Allen
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: crash on February 08, 2018, 11:44:59 AM
The disk space being used by PM Attachements is getting too large.  Heads up ... I plan on cleaning out old attachments in 1 week on Feb 15.  I will start by cleaning out attachments older than 1 year and see what that does to disk space usage.  So you have 1 week to save any old attachment you care to keep.

-Allen

Is there a way to know who the bigger users of the disk space are and notify them individually?  If they miss this obscure post that could kinda suck.

And then there's the other problem.  We all know bigjim has over 10k PMs, a week is hardly enough time to cull through them. 

Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: bmb on February 08, 2018, 12:01:16 PM
We all know bigjim has over 10k PMs, a week is hardly enough time to cull through them.
Don't worry.  A good 2/3s of those PMs are just him saying "Lol!"
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: BigJim on February 08, 2018, 12:02:05 PM
We all know bigjim has over 10k PMs, a week is hardly enough time to cull through them.
Don't worry.  A good 2/3s of those PMs are just him saying "Lol!"

LOL!!!
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Sailfish on February 08, 2018, 12:40:49 PM
We all know bigjim has over 10k PMs, a week is hardly enough time to cull through them.
Don't worry.  A good 2/3s of those PMs are just him saying "Lol!"

LOL!!!

ROFL!!!
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Wldrnshntr on February 08, 2018, 01:40:29 PM
We all know bigjim has over 10k PMs, a week is hardly enough time to cull through them.
Don't worry.  A good 2/3s of those PMs are just him saying "Lol!"

LOL!!!
LOL there's also another 30% of them that contain pictures of him holding a monkey faced eel in his crotch
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 01:43:07 PM
Is there a way to know who the bigger users of the disk space are and notify them individually?  If they miss this obscure post that could kinda suck.

I don't see a way to do this.  I will upgrade the package for PM attachements sometime in the next couple days and see if they've added more management control.

-Allen
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Hojoman on February 08, 2018, 02:11:16 PM
Are event post attachments vulnerable?
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 02:26:18 PM
Are event post attachments vulnerable?

This is strictly about PM attachments.  Normal post attachments are not affected.

In parallel, I'm checking what it costs to upgrade servers to one with more disk storage.

-Allen
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Sin Coast on February 08, 2018, 02:41:19 PM
Start with the pdf files
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 02:50:30 PM
Start with the pdf files

Yup.
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: ReelE on February 08, 2018, 02:57:56 PM
We all know bigjim has over 10k PMs, a week is hardly enough time to cull through them.
Don't worry.  A good 2/3s of those PMs are just him saying "Lol!"

LOL!!!
LOL there's also another 30% of them that contain pictures of him holding a monkey faced eel in his crotch
That was an eel????  :smt005
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: crash on February 08, 2018, 03:05:08 PM
We all know bigjim has over 10k PMs, a week is hardly enough time to cull through them.
Don't worry.  A good 2/3s of those PMs are just him saying "Lol!"

LOL!!!
LOL there's also another 30% of them that contain pictures of him holding a monkey faced eel in his crotch
That was an eel????  :smt005

Or the one of him defiling that poor, poor cabezon?
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Hojoman on February 08, 2018, 03:12:13 PM
Are event post attachments vulnerable?

This is strictly about PM attachments.  Normal post attachments are not affected.

In parallel, I'm checking what it costs to upgrade servers to one with more disk storage.

-Allen
Can you look at all PM attachments without having to access member accounts one at a time? I presume yes.
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 03:32:09 PM
Are event post attachments vulnerable?

This is strictly about PM attachments.  Normal post attachments are not affected.

In parallel, I'm checking what it costs to upgrade servers to one with more disk storage.

-Allen
Can you look at all PM attachments without having to access member accounts one at a time? I presume yes.

Nope.  And that's the way it should be.  Privacy.

-Allen
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Tote on February 08, 2018, 03:42:19 PM
SHIT!!!!
Over 6000 PMs to go through.  :smt044 :smt044
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 03:46:15 PM
SHIT!!!!
Over 6000 PMs to go through.  :smt044 :smt044

If I need to spend all this time cleaning house, you can too!   :smt006

-Allen
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Hojoman on February 08, 2018, 04:04:42 PM
Are event post attachments vulnerable?

This is strictly about PM attachments.  Normal post attachments are not affected.

In parallel, I'm checking what it costs to upgrade servers to one with more disk storage.

-Allen
Can you look at all PM attachments without having to access member accounts one at a time? I presume yes.

Nope.  And that's the way it should be.  Privacy.

-Allen
Sounds like a lot of work for you unless you are only looking at physical size of attachements without viewing.
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 04:07:52 PM
Are event post attachments vulnerable?

This is strictly about PM attachments.  Normal post attachments are not affected.

In parallel, I'm checking what it costs to upgrade servers to one with more disk storage.

-Allen
Can you look at all PM attachments without having to access member accounts one at a time? I presume yes.

Nope.  And that's the way it should be.  Privacy.

-Allen
Sounds like a lot of work for you unless you are only looking at physical size of attachements without viewing.

I have the ability to easily delete based on age, which is why the original post said I'd start with deleting anything older than 1 year.  I mean, if you have an important attachment that is older than a year, why are you keeping it in your PM folder.

-Allen
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Hojoman on February 08, 2018, 04:47:40 PM
Are event post attachments vulnerable?

This is strictly about PM attachments.  Normal post attachments are not affected.

In parallel, I'm checking what it costs to upgrade servers to one with more disk storage.

-Allen
Can you look at all PM attachments without having to access member accounts one at a time? I presume yes.

Nope.  And that's the way it should be.  Privacy.

-Allen
Sounds like a lot of work for you unless you are only looking at physical size of attachements without viewing.

I have the ability to easily delete based on age, which is why the original post said I'd start with deleting anything older than 1 year.  I mean, if you have an important attachment that is older than a year, why are you keeping it in your PM folder.

-Allen
True, as well as why do I keep all my PMs since I joined.
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: Weimarian on February 08, 2018, 04:53:06 PM
I'm ahead of the curve this time... Already went threw it all and have only 19 recent pm's. Thanks for the time you put in to keep the site up and running Allen :smt001

Now at 0  :smt006
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 05:10:21 PM
Are event post attachments vulnerable?

This is strictly about PM attachments.  Normal post attachments are not affected.

In parallel, I'm checking what it costs to upgrade servers to one with more disk storage.

-Allen
Can you look at all PM attachments without having to access member accounts one at a time? I presume yes.

Nope.  And that's the way it should be.  Privacy.

-Allen
Sounds like a lot of work for you unless you are only looking at physical size of attachements without viewing.

I have the ability to easily delete based on age, which is why the original post said I'd start with deleting anything older than 1 year.  I mean, if you have an important attachment that is older than a year, why are you keeping it in your PM folder.

-Allen
True, as well as why do I keep all my PMs since I joined.

To be clear, I will not delete PM's.  It's the attachments that are causing me problems.  I wish there was an easy way for users to list what PM's they have that have attachments.  I'm going to search for a method.

-Allen
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: alien on February 08, 2018, 05:30:58 PM
so if i wanted to save a pm how would i do it and the ones i don't want to save just leave alone or should i go ahead and delete.
Alien
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: polepole on February 08, 2018, 07:20:09 PM
so if i wanted to save a pm how would i do it and the ones i don't want to save just leave alone or should i go ahead and delete.
Alien

I am not deleting PM's, but it would be the attachments to PM.  Click on those and they should download to your computer.

-Allen
Title: Re: [SITE] PM Attachment cleaning house
Post by: alien on February 09, 2018, 06:09:52 AM
Thanks Allen.