> Chris,
> Thank you for your answer. I have ran the cron job but it doesn't make a
> difference, the number of files doesn't decrease. It did give me another
> idea. I went into the backend to check the Clear Cache page and it shows
> the same number of files on the server as SSH shows me, 46997 but Joomla
> shows a size of 21.3kb instead of the actual 724MB. Doing a clean cache
> from the backend does not decrease the files either, so I guess it is in
> line with what the cronjob did.
> Looking at the folder, these cache files go back to February 5th 2012 when
> I started to use Smart Search. Something doesn't seem right here. Just want
> to see if there is anything I can check, before wiping the folder, that may
> be of help in preventing this from happening again.
> Regards,
> Roland
> On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 4:05:46 PM UTC+2, Chris Davenport wrote:
>> I'm guessing you are looking in the cache directory?
>> Yes, you can delete those files.
>> Yes, you should probably set up a cron job to delete them periodically.
>> There is a CLI application that will do that for you. The command to run is
>> php <path-to-joomla>/cli/**garbagecron.php
>> I think this purges just the stale cache files rather than deleting all
>> of them. And of course, it is not restricted to the just the Smart Search
>> files.
>> Chris.
>> On 1 May 2012 07:56, rolandd <rdalmul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> Today I was busy cleaning up my site. I found that the folder
>>> com_finder.search is huge. It contains 46793 files and is about 720MB
>>> large. My site has about 850 articles but it really shouldn't be using this
>>> much space should it? This averages to 55 files and 0.84MB per article.
>>> This sounds like overkill.
>>> Can I just empty the com_finder.search folder? Is there a setting for it
>>> not becoming so large or should I be setting up a cron job to empty it
>>> regularly?
>>> The site runs Joomla 2.5.4.
>>> Thanks for the insight.
>>> Regards,
>>> Roland
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