Solved Mastodon media cache cleanup is doing nothing?

[whitespace]

I am running Mastodon on my Cloudron.
Since the media cache tends to use up much space quickly I looked up a way to delete it from time to time.

Fortunately there is already a cleanup script available in the mastodon terminal.

/app/pkg/cleanup.sh

Thanks for that.

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I tried the script as well as the pure command which is

./bin/tootctl media remove

The outcome is this:

Removed 0 media attachments (approx. 0 Bytes)

I restarted the application, rechecked. The disk usage remained the same.

Using the following command I checked, how things look from the tooctl´s perspective in contrast to the Cloudron volumes inspector.

.bin/tooctl media usage

Result:

Attachments:    3.01 GB (3.54 MB local)
Custom emoji:   4.98 MB (0 Bytes local)
Preview cards:  63 MB
Avatars:        101 MB (116 KB local)
Headers:        297 MB (195 KB local)
Backups:        0 Bytes
Imports:        0 Bytes
Settings:       204 KB

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As you can see the Attachments take up 3.01 GB and I can´t delete them. What is the problem? I do not understand. I suppose it is something specific to the Cloudron installation?

[whitespace]

Solution:

./bin/tootctl media remove

has an option

--days

which defaults to 7 days of not set.

Our instance is only 3 days old. Since i did not set the flag it defaulted to 7 days.
The system did everything right. There were no files as old or older than 7 days. Accordingly it did not delete anything. Computer smart.

I was able to delete the cached media files.

[doodlemania2]

@whitespace Is there a default aging limit to what it will remove?

[jdaviescoates]

@whitespace said in Mastodon media cache cleanup is doing nothing?:

3.01 GB (3.54 MB local)

I know nothing about this, but perhaps the issue is that only 3.54 MB are local?

Just a random guess, but I'd guess perhaps you're not actually able to delete attachments posted by non-local accounts?

[whitespace]

@jdaviescoates I had this thought. I consulted other Mastodon admins. They say, they can delete everything. This should not occur.

[whitespace]

Solution:

./bin/tootctl media remove

has an option

--days

which defaults to 7 days of not set.

Our instance is only 3 days old. Since i did not set the flag it defaulted to 7 days.
The system did everything right. There were no files as old or older than 7 days. Accordingly it did not delete anything. Computer smart.

I was able to delete the cached media files.