I wanted to use this plugin on a simple blog with a LOT of junk unattached media (nothing important, so not worried about fallout).
However, as far as I can see, the plugin works by loading everything in one go – and that goes WAY beyond the 30-second timeout when you have thousands of items in the media library.
It could do with a batching setup, loading a couple hundred items at a time and comparing, rather than trying to do everything at once and failing.
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I used it to get rid of my redundant media files but it also deleted a bunch of CSS, ZIP and other clearly non-media files.
Lucky I’ve got a full backup so I could restore the files… and lucky your plugin is Open Source, otherwise you might end up with a massive lawsuit for damaging peoples’ data.
My suggestion is that you “teach” the plugin to recognise file types. It’s not that difficult in PHP.
This plugin can only be used if your uploads folder doesn’t contain important data, otherwise don’t even think about using this plugin.
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It would be a brave (or maybe foolhardy) blog owner who installed this without knowing more.
And no, there’s no spare time to poke around in the code to see how it functions.