Can I get a list only?

  • Resolved kenw232

    (@kenw232)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Will Media Cleaner allow me to only get a text list of all media files that can be removed? I see when I allow it to remove the files woocommerce looses the src=”…” for the would be image. Absolutely stupid because now I can never know what file was supposed to be there so I can’t even put it back. Where if I had a list I could just delete all the files, then put back the broken ones because Media Cleaner isn’t doing some unattachMedia() call or whatever stupid thing it does ruining the entire point of the plugin.

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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Hi @kenw232,

    I am not sure I understand; basically, you say that the plugin is removing files that are in used, right?

    If yes, that simply means that I didn’t handle your specific use case. Every single use case of image needs to be handled to be recognized (yes, this plugin requires a huge amount of work). I did covered most use cases over the years, but there might always be new ones.

    The idea here is to find which use case it is. Is it related to WooCommerce? It looks like so, but is it the WooCommerce (main) plugin, or are you using a feature from another plugin to handle those images? Or maybe is it your theme? Could be useful to share a link to your website, pointing at the kind of images are deleted.

    It doesn’t do any stupid thing, don’t worry about this ?? I have coded this plugin and enhanced it in every way so that it can be clever as much as possible. Still, it’s a technical tool, in a technical world. Here, we are talking about WordPress + an infinity of plugins = an infinite of possibilities. You can always try to find a better way for the plugin to act, but I have debated/enhanced this with the help of thousands of users I actually talk with over the years. It’s pretty solid, and if there was a better way, I would be already on it as we speak.

    Thread Starter kenw232

    (@kenw232)

    Thanks for the response. All I know is when Media Cleaner deletes the unused images from my wp-uploads the img src=”xyz” is lost to. the HTML source has no xyz anymore. Thats bad.

    And you didn’t answer my question. Can Media Cleaner only give me a list or not?

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    All I know is when Media Cleaner deletes the unused images from my wp-uploads the img src=”xyz” is lost to.?

    It’s removed where, what kind of place? I need to know exactly how this image is created (through a pagebuilder, a gallery, a specific field, etc).

    And you didn’t answer my question. Can Media Cleaner only give me a list or not?

    There is no way to download this list; but also, we can’t really do anything much with the list only (the only thing we can do is to delete files based on it, which only Media Cleaner can do). If you really would like to have it, it’s possible to look at it in the database ??

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