Plan to Delete Attachments & Restrict Their Size Thereafter
Jul 21, 2017 16:02:53 GMT
GSV3MIaC, david42, and 4 more like this
Post by star dust on Jul 21, 2017 16:02:53 GMT
The Forum has reached over 91% of it’s free 200 MB attachment limit, and we are getting a constant warning about this. Should we exceed our limit the Pro Boards software apparently simply stops any more attachments from being posted.
Unfortunately, we only have blunt instruments with which manage our attachments without spending excessive amounts of time going through the individual posts and removing the attachments.
We currently have in excess of two thousand (2000) posts with attachments on the Forum; around 200 of them have attachments greater than 200 KB and together they account for over half our total storage allocation. Given that we cannot easily delete attachments by any particular variables (date or size for example) as they are not stored or accessible in that way, we have decided to reduce the limit for attachments from 1 MB to 200 KB and the number of attachments per post from 3 to 1.
We will carry this out next weekend (29/30th July) to give everyone a chance to review their attachments and decide if they want to keep a copy of the information should they not already have done so. This action should delete the attachments in the aforementioned 200 posts which currently exceed this ‘new’ limit and reduce our storage to the 50% level. If it does not we will delete them from the 200 posts manually over that weekend.
Going forward this should also help keep the situation under control for some time. However, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that the forum does not have or make any money, that it is maintained entirely by volunteers, and that you can assist by posting images rather than attachments wherever possible – see here. The use of this mechanism has increased significantly in the last year, and we’d like to thank those that make sure they do post linked images, it has certainly helped with the storage situation, and delayed our arrival at this point
Unfortunately, we only have blunt instruments with which manage our attachments without spending excessive amounts of time going through the individual posts and removing the attachments.
We currently have in excess of two thousand (2000) posts with attachments on the Forum; around 200 of them have attachments greater than 200 KB and together they account for over half our total storage allocation. Given that we cannot easily delete attachments by any particular variables (date or size for example) as they are not stored or accessible in that way, we have decided to reduce the limit for attachments from 1 MB to 200 KB and the number of attachments per post from 3 to 1.
We will carry this out next weekend (29/30th July) to give everyone a chance to review their attachments and decide if they want to keep a copy of the information should they not already have done so. This action should delete the attachments in the aforementioned 200 posts which currently exceed this ‘new’ limit and reduce our storage to the 50% level. If it does not we will delete them from the 200 posts manually over that weekend.
Going forward this should also help keep the situation under control for some time. However, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that the forum does not have or make any money, that it is maintained entirely by volunteers, and that you can assist by posting images rather than attachments wherever possible – see here. The use of this mechanism has increased significantly in the last year, and we’d like to thank those that make sure they do post linked images, it has certainly helped with the storage situation, and delayed our arrival at this point
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