Storage folder filling up fast. Can I delete the files?

[iagodalcin]

I have a chatwoot self-hosted connected with two instagram accounts. I receive lots of story mentions (1-2k per month, around 60GB of pictures/videos now). Chatwoot seems to download it to the storage folder: 'storage///****************************
(example 'storage/29/q1/29q1c4xzw6rqqqr60ky0jkmf9l76').

I have now migrated to 'Digital Ocean Spaces' for file storage, but I still have the 60GB old files in disk (around 10k conversations by now)

Can I delete everything 30 days older than today inside the 'storage' folder? Will it break something?

[da411d]

So, did you found out?

[da411d]

As for me, I'm using S3 storage (minio). Once I had problems with the instance configuration and media weren't working. And Chatwoot was working just fine, except the media weren't loading - just label with some error message. Don't know if it caused any looping problems, but looks like not.

[iagodalcin]

I did some produce with the instruction of chatgpt.

1 - I created some sort of mirror storage on the env file, 2 - then sidekiq workers mirrored all local data with digital ocean spaces. It took around 15 minutes. Then I had two copies of every file (one local, one on spaces)
3 - removed the mirror while changing the default storage to spaces. So local storage became obsolete.

I didnt delete "old files on active storage" but that solved my problem (files no longer using local hd space)