Ive been trying to mess with the timeout limits in the php ini file to give it a fighting chance, but its been to no luck as of lately. Feel free to shoot me an e-mail if you want me to test it on one of my larger blogs.

Thanks again

Ah yes, I’m not entirely surprised it’s having trouble. Unfortunately at this point there’s not much I can advise. At some point I’ll see if I can alter the plugin’s operation to be able to work with huge data sets like this – stay tuned.

I tried to change the upload directory to each specific year and month, and run them one at a time, but it dosent seem to work well.

and if i use it straight to the Upload directory, i get the same blank screen.

I increased my max times in php.ini to maybe give me a better shot of not timing out, but no such luck.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated !!

Owen

Oh dear – that doesn’t sound right! 400MB shouldn’t be a problem at all (mine’s much larger).

Specifically, which point does it get stuck at? Did you see the “Select files to delete” page? Or just the start page with “Press Begin below to start”?

One thought: Do you have any recursive symbolic links within your wp-content folder? There’s a chance it’s getting stuck in a loop (although I would then expect it to die with a memory exhausted error…).

Ah yes, if your server is in safe mode, it may have trouble.

If you have a database backup, the simplest thing I can advise is to selectively restore the database entries that correspond to the images (or the whole database).

Failing that, it should be possible to put together a script to scan the entries in the uploads folder and re-enter the records in the database. It’d take a bit of doing, though. If you’re desperate, I’m happy to give you a quote (if so, give me a bell).

It deleted all my galleries and now I can get them restored. The images are still in the uploads directory (I even restored my backup), but now WordPress won’t pick them up! Do you know how to fix this?

There’s some issue or other with your archive utility (tar) – It’s hard to know exactly what it is, but the easiest way forward is probably to back your uploads folder yourself, if you have the means to do so. You can proceed without making a backup, but I wouldn’t recommend it =)

I might add some extra reporting in the next version so tar problems are more clear.

Very great plugin but when I try to delete some files I’ve got an error when the plugin make the archive file : Encountered a problem while creating archive: The ‘tar’ utility reported error number 1.

Best wishes Stéphane

It sounds to me like there may be a plugin interfering – If you feel up to it, you could try disabling some plugins, and seeing if Upload Janitor starts working for you.

The other possibility is that perhaps there’s actually a 501 server error happening – if you have a particularly large uploads folder, there’s a chance that the plugin is running out of memory. If you have the means to do so, try checking your error log and seeing if there’s anything telling in there. Or, if you can, try increasing your memory limit, if disabling plugins doesn’t provide any leads.

Any ideas? It would be so great if I could get this to work as it looks like exactly what I need!

Best wishes Kieran