[pmwiki-users] The removal of uploaded images

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-10-25  12:04 PM +0200, Robert Blaha is rumored to have said:
>I think this is a disadvantage of pmwiki to other wikis, that store 
>all attachments in a database.
>My sites are all messed with orphaned files, not easily possible to 
>find out which ones are really unused.
>So there is always the feeling that it is not a very clean thing. 
>;-) psychotic

The refcount action allows you to find orphaned files (not unused 
attachments, however).

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/RefCount

If you find an orphaned page, you can delete it by setting the 
contents to the single word "delete". The file is not thrown away, 
but its name has a suffix added to it to indicate when it was deleted.

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DeletingPages


Neil

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