cleaning WP

  • Hi all.
    There is a point which I’m not able to solve, or to understand.
    I’m building a new site based on a child theme of Twenty Seventeen.
    There are many useless files which I wish to definitively cancel from server:
    1) files in media library: I regularly cancel the useless files, but when I check
    appearently they are cancelled, but when I check with a client (like Filezilla) I see all my cancelled files still there
    2) autosave files: since I often click on publish, and make several tests, there are hundreds of temporary files

    All this remains on the server (and it is very heavy): sometimes I think to cancel all from the domain but never did because worried … might be a register inside WP that recorded such files and if I manually cancel could be a problem.

    Also do not use all the solutions such us plugins or directly emending some php:
    because I use the “uploads” folder like a sort of “storage” of all the external files which I use (added html pages, some css and js stored there):
    if I use a plugin the program probably sees those files as “not used” and cancels them.

    What to do?
    How can I throw away all the useless waste? Manually? I can do, but ask you to be sure.
    Thank you

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    files in media library: I regularly cancel the useless files,

    What do you mean by useless files?

    autosave files: since I often click on publish, and make several tests, there are hundreds of temporary files

    Autosave does not create files; it creates rows in the database. You can use plugins like “WP Optimize” or “WP Sweep” to remove those.

    Thread Starter Mauro Vicariotto

    (@mrosfy)

    Thankyou Steve,
    and sorry if I did not specify:
    for useless I mean that I upload dozens of images for tests, then discard at least the 70% and after chosen cancell all the rest.
    Or f.e. decide a background image, then change to another.
    Same for the HTML, js and stylesheets (whih for my decision preferred to put in subfolders in same path):
    cancelling, I was sure to erase them definitively.
    But when go ftp with Filezilla I see all still there.

    ??
    They are not related to some existing pages.

    (thanks for the info about autosaves: now I can use WP Sweep)

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    If you delete images from the media library, they’re deleted from the file system. If you just remove them from a post, they’re left on the file system.

    So, go to the Media Library, select the images you no longer want/need, and delete from there.

    Thread Starter Mauro Vicariotto

    (@mrosfy)

    Steva thank you for your patience.
    What you are saying is what I reularly do, cancel all from media library every week.
    Also (recently) tried a plugin “Extend Media Upload” to create subfolders and cancel them directly.
    But (with or without the plugin) you could not believe:
    when I go to the domain and look at the folder the files are still allthere.

    ???
    Do you want to see the backup?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    >> cancel all from media library every week <<

    What do you mean by “cancel”?

    Thread Starter Mauro Vicariotto

    (@mrosfy)

    select the files to delete and click on “delete definitively” (or don’t know what’s in EN version, I have in IT “cancella definitivamente”)

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    OK, so let’s try a simple test. Upload one image file to the media library, then delete it. Does the file get removed?

    Thread Starter Mauro Vicariotto

    (@mrosfy)

    yes Steve, when you delete it, the file is removed from the list in list appearance
    (I can repeat the test this evening (IT Time Zone, I’m in Italy now).
    I have only one doubt (as said I have the descriptions in IT, don’t know what is in EN).
    When you see at the list of the uploaded media (columns) at the third col (“loaded on”) the 99% of my images result “not attached”.
    This is because I use such library for all purposes (f.e. for backgrounds), while “attached” means “applied inside a page” (or something like that).

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I”m asking whether it’s removed from your file system, as that seems to be the issue you started with.

    Upload a file. Is it in wp-content/uploads/something ? If you delete it, is the file removed?

    Thread Starter Mauro Vicariotto

    (@mrosfy)

    no, it isn’t
    anyhow this evening I will check again

    looking better it seems that this issue is caused by the domain provider (Aruba.it).
    they offer you a package including WP: but (not sure yet!) it seems that they include a strange backup system which “backups also what you delete”

    not sure

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