READ: I will be pruning attachments.

[A Black Falcon]

Okay, checked mine. I have 197, but they're small; almost all are just screenshots, dozens 5KB and under. There were a handful of larger, non-screenshot ones that I just did get rid of (some roms from classic game competition things we did years ago that I forgot about; finding stuff like that on the internet is not exactly difficult), but the rest I'd like to keep... I probably still have copies of most of those files, but I'm not sure, and there is no easy way to check (you can't just batch download attachments or anything like that).


Also, the "search by file size" option in the admin panel is broken, which really is an inconvenience. Before you delete stuff I'd really like to be able to use that option.

If you want me to rehost the larger ones of mine, like the ones over 150KB or so (there are only 11, most under 200KB; only three are 500KB or more), then tell me and I'll do that. It's annoying that there is no easy way for me to just download copies of those attachments via the admin panel, that'd be a nice option to have too. Oh well...

Deleting attachments will make so many older thread nonsensical, it really should be an option of last resort... I can understand deleting large attachments, but the small attachments...

I just checked, attachments take up 175MB, versus 282MB for the database. If some attachments must be deleted, I'd check for large attachments if the "sort by size" function worked, to see if a few large ones are taking up a lot of space, but that's not working, so who knows... just deleting all of them seems kind of annoyingly pointless though, compared to focusing on the ones actually taking up most of that space.