Photo album deletion
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýIt appears attachments pictures have to be deleted one at a time. ? Don ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mebefebe via Groups.Io ? Hi, is there a way to empty a complete photo alum all at once? |
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýBruce, ? I thought about that idea too, but it raised a question to me. Does Out of Space mean out of space for all pictures (Photo Albums and Attachments) or just attachments? If it means just attachments how many would make it out of space? ? Don ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bruce Bowman ? On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 09:46 am, Mebefebe wrote:
The only idea I can come up with is to intentionally upload a file that puts you over your disk quota, thereby forcing the system to delete the old attachments. See Admin->Settings->Message Formatting->Out of Space |
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Don,
I thought about that idea too, but it raised a question to me. DoesThose and files too: /static/pricing#what-is-counted-towards-the-storage-limits-for-my-group FWIW I don't think Bruce's suggestion would work. I think the attempt to upload a file that puts your group over quota would likely fail. That's a simple way to avoid the need to delete anything. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 01:20 am, Shal Farley wrote:
I think the attempt to upload a file that puts your group over quota would likely fail.I thought the entire point of that setting was to allow for unattended purging of the attachments queue. Perhaps an example will help... -- You are on the free program, meaning you have 1 GB of storage. -- You have 500 MB of files and photos in photo albums that you want to keep. -- You have 300 MB of attachments that you'd like to get rid of. You temporarily upload a file that's 490 MB in size, so essentially all your allotted storage is taken up by files and photo albums. The system sees that your attachment queue puts you over the limit, and deletes the oldest 290 MB of them, at which point you delete the file you uploaded. Voila'! You have purged the attachments without having to resort to deleting them one by one. I hope I'm making sense. Bruce |
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Bruce,
You temporarily upload a file that's 490 MB in size, so essentially all your allotted storage is taken up by files and photo albums. I admit I haven't tested it, but it is my expectation that upload would be rejected for putting your group over its quota. Because I think the quota it would test against includes your extant attachments. ? I hope I'm making sense. You're making sense. I just have my doubts that the system will let you do that. Now maybe if that fails it would be reasonable to request (on beta) that it be allowed to succeed, with some kind of warning (maybe even an "Are you sure?" popup) that the consequence will be the deletion of X amount of attachments. That I could see as a useful feature, even if you didn't intend to promptly delete the file. Or rather, especially if the content of that file (or photo) is more useful to the group than those attachments. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 01:52 pm, Shal Farley wrote:
You're making sense. I just have my doubts that the system will let you do that.If it DOESN'T work, then I can make no sense of that configuration setting. Sooner or later everybody's attachment queue is going to fill up...if we then have to resort to manually deleting files from it to upload anything, what's the point? Bruce |
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Bruce,
If it DOESN'T work, then I can make no sense of that configuration setting. The purpose of that setting is to decide what to do with an incoming message that would put the group over quota. The options are to bounce the message or to delete old attachments. I agree that it would make sense to have a similar ability for uploads, but perhaps that doesn't need to be controlled by an option (because the user can be asked in the upload dialog). Or maybe it should be controlled by a group option which isn't in the "Message Formatting" section. ShalAs a completely separate trivia, I wonder why that and Attachments aren't Message Policies instead? ? -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Perhaps the OP will try it and report back...my groups just transferred 3 weeks ago and we haven't built up enough attachments yet.
Somewhat related question:? Where do emailed non-photos wind up? I know they are stored on the server somewhere, as sometimes the big ones are sent out as links. But with no corresponding "emailed attachments" folder in the files area, how can we delete those? The inability to avoid repeatedly going over quota without the gruesome task of deleting attachments one by one is really beginning to look like a system bug to me (especially for that poor guy who has to deal with all the little embedded sig line images).? Hopefully?there's some easy answer to all this that's eluding us at the moment.? Bruce |
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 02:55 pm, Bruce Bowman wrote:
Somewhat related question:? Where do emailed non-photos wind up? I know they are stored on the server somewhere, as sometimes the big ones are sent out as links. But with no corresponding "emailed attachments" folder in the files area, how can we delete those? /g/GroupManagersForum/message/3542 Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list |
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 02:58 pm, Duane wrote:
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/3542This helps me view the attachments, but I don't see how they can be deleted without also deleting the message. Am I missing something obvious (I usually am)? Is this a Premium-only feature? Bruce |
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Click on Edit for the post, then scroll down to the attachment and select the Delete box, save the message.? This is another one of those things that I learned when it was introduced.? Not totally intuitive for new folks.
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