Removing old unused images

[maestroc]

Anyone know of a script or program a person could use to:

1) Crawl their site, taking note of all of the images that are asked for
2) Compare that list to the images stored in your images folder
3) Give you a list of the old images that you can safely delete?

I have deleted or archived hundreds of old articles that were not performing well and as a result I know there are now hundreds of dead images in my image directory. I would like to reclaim the space but know of no easy way to do it. Any ideas?

-MaestroC

[cbahiana]

Hi maestroc,

We are working on exactly that here at the job.

Actually, we're trying to make a code that also ckecks for the existence of images in galleries (we use Simple Image Gallery), system images, thumbnails, caches and leave them untouched.

It will probably not be a Joomla component, but a CLI php, but if we succeed, I'll let you know and share the code.

[hans2103]

René Kreijveld already wrote a bash script to take care of this.

jfindfiles
This script looks for used and unused files in the images/stories folder of your Joomla! website. It first creates a database dump and then checks all files in images/stories to see if these are mentioned in the database dump. Reports are created for all used and unused files. Suggestions and improvements are welcome!

http://www.jsnippets.net/snippets/bash/findfiles

It's written for both J1.0 as J1.5
with the code it can be expanded to J2.5 and J3.x

[cbahiana]

Thanks, Hans, I'll take a look.

[maestroc]

This would be great if anyone manages to get that script working for 2.5 or 3. Thank you hans for the info and Carlos for looking into upgrading it for 2.5/3.

-Maestroc