Forum out of space / Uploader Folder is Full

I agree with Cow…I see no reason to take up space with old games.
Maybe archive some of the tournament games but get rid of the others that nobody cares about. If someone is sentimentaly attached to a particular game then they can save it on their computer instead of taking up space here.
If I had the option of deleting my old games, I’d do it!

If I had the option of deleting my old games, I’d do it!

I would as well. Games I won and lost. I would delete old topics I started as well!

Maybe make new mods to help delete stuff. Like by request n such.

allweneedislove and gamerman01   are good candidates.

I think they can help create space, they seem active and friendly. The person who surrenders can post in the topic to give permission to the victor to delete the game and then the victor can private message a mod to delete it. That way both parties know who won and the game that would never get touched again goes poof!

Core long time members of the community know which games are legacy games.

Maybe promote one to moderator to pick out the legacy games to save. Like Yoshi for example.
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If saving games is really important than we can simply delete all pages except for the last file and “I surrender” for triple a games. Triple A has history saved so everyone can look at the play by play therefor it is okay to delete all pages prior to the last file and surrender. Even if the game is not done the players still have the last file!

I can build a document with links of all completed triple a games (with the link to the surrender if they surrendered in league results) and a mod can check it.

The mod could clear out a whole gig in an hour. It would take me a day or two to sort through all the games, figure out which ones are triple a games, then figure out where they surrendered.

As far as games that are not finished but have not been touched for years, just pick a point in time and everything in the past I will link.

Then all a mod has to do is confirm there is a triple a upload on the page I linked and that the game is complete and then delete all the pages before the page I linked.

@Cow:

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If saving games is really important than we can simply delete all pages except for the last file and “I surrender” for triple a games. Triple A has history saved so everyone can look at the play by play therefor it is okay to delete all pages prior to the last file and surrender. Even if the game is not done the players still have the last file!

I don’t see it as being needed to delete the actual posts, just remove the attachments from everything except the end.

True!
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Update: Gamerman01 said he would do the cleaning to free up space. Just choose some form of guideline and he can delete some files.

Bump.

This needs to be addressed. Would like admins to do some spring cleaning and clear out some old games to free upload space.

The file size for global games is about 75 kb each. One round had 8 countries so 8 saves gets posted. Average game is 10 rounds. Yep. Adds up hard. Battlemaps makes a dent as well. Each global game is 6k kilobytes! Ouch.

Yeps got to delete stuff.

1 gigabyte only holds 166 games! Some deleting must be done!

If the save files are about 75kB each wouldn’t you get about 13, 333 save files per gig?  Correction, I see we were talking about saved games being 80 save files.

Lets assume the average save file is 100K each, then you get 10, 000 per gig.  If you had a TB of site storage you would get about 10 million save files.  I’m not sure what is being paid for storage but I would think 10 million saved games per TB year should cover the site.

I find it hard to believe it todays age that storage of non-video files is an issue.  If it really is, then a process on a timer could delete certain files extensions that are of a certain age or older.  It really ought to be trivial to set something automated up.   Something slightly more complex would delete all but the latest save file for tripleA as each file contains all the legacy turns.  Each iteration of battlemap would be kept as they are small and are required for turn by turn following of legacy games.

I have a semi-automatic script that cleans things up. The problem is with the way that SMF stores files. I must query the DB to get the file list and then delete all of these oddly named files.

It’s a pain.

Could you create a trigger in the DB that counts how many new oddly named files have been inserted then every X inserts do a delete based on the query?  Dynamic SQL generation was my thing using cough cough VB.

It can be done, it just needs to be done carefully. I’ve been meaning to put this in a cron job for quite some time.

cron job?

Uploader is full again.

Can a bunch of people go an delete old attachments? I don’t have time to address this until later tonight.

sure, but how would I do that? Only for admins I guess.

You can’t delete your own posts? I think you should be able to.

@djensen:

You can’t delete your own posts? I think you should be able to.

Would be happy to do so if someone knows how to  8-)

There is no “modify” button available on game posts in order to remove files in the game threads

@djensen:

You can’t delete your own posts? I think you should be able to.

I dont see how, djensen. I’d gladly remove all traces of my worst defeats  :wink:

Promote new admins specifically to clean up old threads. There are a bunch of active contributors on this site.

There is a position called Liaison.  From what I understand two whole users have this special position.  Perhaps this position should be responsible for tasks like this since their primary responsibility is getting rid of spam (and/or new users and donors) from what I understand.