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The attachments section allows you to manage all attachments on your board, including search for them, find orphaned attachments (ones where something is missing from either the file system or the database), and view general attachment statistics.

Forum & Posts: Find Attachments

1 Find Attachments
- 1.1 Display Options
- 1.2 Results
2 Orphaned Attachments
3 Attachment Statistics

[edit] Find Attachments

This function allows you to find attachments on your forum. You can enter in as many or as few of the search options. The more you enter, the narrower your search will be.

File name contains: Name of file. You can use * as a wildcard
File type contains: File extension
Forum is: Forum attachment was posted in. Use CTRL to select more than one.
Posters' username is: User who uploaded
Date posted is: Number of days ago the upload was posted. You can select either more than or less than the number of days you enter.
File size is: Approximate file size in kilobytes (KB). You can select greater than, exactly, or less than the size you enter.
Download count is: Number of times the attachment has been downloaded. You can select greater than, exactly, and less than the number you enter.

[edit] Display Options

Sort results by: You can choose to sort by file name, file size, download count, date uploaded, and post username in ascending (A-Z or 0-9) or descending (Z-A or 9-0) order.
Results per page: Number of results per page. If nothing is entered, the search will default to 20 per page.

Forum & Posts: Find Attachments Results

[edit] Results

The results page when searching for downloads allows you to delete any selected attachments, and shows you the following details about the attachment:

Attachment: Here you will see the icon set for this file type and the name (including extension) of the file.
Size: Size of the file
Posted by: User who uploaded the attachment
Thread: Thread the attachment is posted in
Downloads: Number of times the attachment has been downloaded
Date Uploaded: Date the attachment was uploaded

Forum & Posts: Orphaned Attachments

[edit] Orphaned Attachments

This tool will check both your database and the file system for any orphaned attachments - where there is a copy of the attachment in one place (either the database or the file system), but not in the other. If there are no orphaned attachments, you will be told so after the tool checks. If there are, you will be shown a list of the orphaned attachments, with the option to delete selected orphaned attachments. The following details will be shown in the orphaned attachment results listing:

Attachment: Here you will see the icon set for this file type and the name (including extension) of the file.
Size: Size of the file
Reason: Tells you whether the file or the database information was missing.
Date Uploaded: Date the attachment was uploaded

Forum & Posts: Attachment Statistics

[edit] Attachment Statistics

This feature shows you useful statistics about the attachments on your board.

[edit] General Statistics

No. Uploaded Attachments: Total number of attachments on your board.
Estimated Bandwidth Usage: Based on the number of downloads for each attachment, this is the estimated total bandwidth the attachments on your forum has used. This is NOT exact, it is just an estimate.
Attachment Space Used: Total amount of space used for attachments.
Average Attachment Size: The average size of an attachment. This is the total space used divided by the number of uploaded attachments.