Old unused files on server
 

I have on my server thousands of galleries spread on many domains that have never been listed. I would like to delete those files older than 2 months that have never had a single hit. Is there a way to do this?

There should be a button on your keyboard there somwhere that's marked either "Del" or "Delete"... try that one.

Hypo, try working on this double posting problem of yours before hitting the tough stuff.

What double posting?

What double posting?

Amp, how do I find out which of the 1000s of files have never had a hit before I hit that delete key on them?

Got a server access log?

that double posting

that double posting

Hypo why dont you go through them and resubmit them to a bunch of TGP's instead of deleting them?

I do have server logs, but I dont know how to go through them automatically, something that will check for each gallery page that's not been visited and delete them.

I dont want to resubmit them, they all have recips, and it will be a pain submitting each recipped gallery to the proper TGP, and I make new galleries everyday with new sponsors and better templates, so I dont really need old galleries.

I could delete all old galleries created 3 months, but I hear the search engine traffic gets them and thats valuable traffic.

... if you are getting traffic of the searchengines, keep the old files ... I reckon you will be better of buying a bigger disc !!

but you could also, like you said, delete all files that are older than 3 month (but keep a copy somewhere), than watch your logfiles for 404 entries and restore the files that still get hits ...

... if you are running your stuff of some linux/freeBSD box, just go to your log_file location and type "fgrep 404 name_of_log_file" to screen out all 404 entries ... hope this helps ?

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[This message has been edited by funkmaster (edited 10-12-2001).]

[This message has been edited by funkmaster (edited 10-12-2001).]

Thing is, only those files will get hits that have been listed somewhere, as they'll be picked up by SEs. These files are taking 4 gigs of space I think. If there was some method of automatically deleting files older than 2 months getting no hits that would be the best.

Else I could try out your method, backing up and restoring from 404s, but sounds tedious.

what will take you longer, finding those files or installing an additional disk?

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Don't innovate - imitate!
... giving away mass traffic for free !!