Weirds files making the site 320MB more fat

Monday 14 April 2008 7:47:30 am - 3 replies

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Maxime Thomas	Tuesday 15 April 2008 10:38:43 pm Some information for you : - eZPublish is using image aliasing : it means that each image you upload will be declined in several alias as small, medium and large pictures. If you have a lot of pictures it can take some space. - eZPublish is versionning content. It means that each content you upload is stored and each time you edit this content, a bunch of new attributes will be created. It implies that if you use the File content to store big files (eg Windows SP1), and you see that you have made a mitake in the comment of the content and you modify it, the Windows SP1 is duplicated. You can limit that with some Version settings. - all the data files (images, videos, PDF and so on) are stored in the var/<siteaccess> directory. If you delete them you will lose data files and so, if you try to download a file from the front interface, you will have an object not found error. Hope it helps Maxime Thomas maxime.thomas@wascou.org \| www.wascou.org \| http://twitter.com/wascou Company Blog : http://www.wascou.org/eng/Company/Blog Technical Blog : http://share.ez.no/blogs/maxime-thomas
Nicolò Zanetti	Thursday 17 April 2008 1:13:37 am Hi Thomas, First of all thank you for your help. If the only consequences of deleting those file will be "missing file error" I will delete them now, I was just worried about system error, since I don't need them in the copied site. Anyway I haven't uploaded anything such huge in the site, and the removal of the var/siteaccess/storage/original/application directory hadn't any conseguences in the site, apart from the loss of some *.swf file, reuploaded, now it's everything fine. Since I don't have unlimited disk space, any useless file deleted is a good thing. Thank you again, bye
Nicolò Zanetti	Thursday 17 April 2008 3:32:31 am Ok that 320 MB was the *.swf pdfs and all the other files I uploaded, like Thomas said, but they was about the main site I copied the data from, it was simple... now i know it. All the pdf did lost their extension, and their original name (now they are something like "02d261ab6246eec2f8b3b3e8b1fbf06f") so it was not that easy to catch this, anyway if i upload a file by the ez interface, and than i delete it, it will still be there, because the local full site directory (images, swf, pdf, video, docs...) is 220MB, the ezpublish /storage/original/application itself is 320MB, and i deleted all the files that i use no more with ezinterface, so there is a lot of MB that still should be useless, and if i upload a file, i save the http adress , than i delete the file with the ezinterface and i use the saved adress i will still find the item. So I think that deleting them from the ez panel is just deleting the link, but the files are still there in that directory. But this is a waste of space, how can i clean it without a full wash&reupload operation?

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Tuesday 15 April 2008 10:38:43 pm

Some information for you :
- eZPublish is using image aliasing : it means that each image you upload will be declined in several alias as small, medium and large pictures. If you have a lot of pictures it can take some space.
- eZPublish is versionning content. It means that each content you upload is stored and each time you edit this content, a bunch of new attributes will be created. It implies that if you use the File content to store big files (eg Windows SP1), and you see that you have made a mitake in the comment of the content and you modify it, the Windows SP1 is duplicated. You can limit that with some Version settings.
- all the data files (images, videos, PDF and so on) are stored in the var/<siteaccess> directory. If you delete them you will lose data files and so, if you try to download a file from the front interface, you will have an object not found error.

Hope it helps

Maxime Thomas
maxime.thomas@wascou.org | www.wascou.org | http://twitter.com/wascou

Company Blog : http://www.wascou.org/eng/Company/Blog
Technical Blog : http://share.ez.no/blogs/maxime-thomas

Nicolò Zanetti

Thursday 17 April 2008 1:13:37 am

Hi Thomas,
First of all thank you for your help.
If the only consequences of deleting those file will be "missing file error" I will delete them now, I was just worried about system error, since I don't need them in the copied site.
Anyway I haven't uploaded anything such huge in the site, and the removal of the var/siteaccess/storage/original/application directory hadn't any conseguences in the site, apart from the loss of some *.swf file, reuploaded, now it's everything fine.
Since I don't have unlimited disk space, any useless file deleted is a good thing.
Thank you again, bye

Nicolò Zanetti

Thursday 17 April 2008 3:32:31 am

Ok that 320 MB was the *.swf pdfs and all the other files I uploaded, like Thomas said, but they was about the main site I copied the data from, it was simple... now i know it.

All the pdf did lost their extension, and their original name (now they are something like "02d261ab6246eec2f8b3b3e8b1fbf06f") so it was not that easy to catch this, anyway if i upload a file by the ez interface, and than i delete it, it will still be there, because the local full site directory (images, swf, pdf, video, docs...) is 220MB, the ezpublish /storage/original/application itself is 320MB, and i deleted all the files that i use no more with ezinterface, so there is a lot of MB that still should be useless, and if i upload a file, i save the http adress , than i delete the file with the ezinterface and i use the saved adress i will still find the item. So I think that deleting them from the ez panel is just deleting the link, but the files are still there in that directory. But this is a waste of space, how can i clean it without a full wash&reupload operation?

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