[Solved] Is there a trash that I need to empty?

[mgmason]

Hello, my user name is mgmason, and I just started here and moved my sites from another host with the duplicator plugin. I saw today that I was over my disk space so I upgrade to 7000mb of space. I'm used to the cPanel file manger where I can empty the trash, but I don't see this option in Plesk. I'm thinking that there maybe some large duplicator archive files in the trash taking up space? Do I need to empty it or will it empty on it's own?

Thanks, Mike

[wolstech]

If you go in the file manager in plesk, select the .trash folder on the left, and then there should be a button to empty it.

If you need help figuring out where your space went, just let us know and we can provide details.

[mgmason]

Thank you, but I don't see it, perhaps I'm not on the correct screen. Please see the screenshot attached.

[MoneyBroz]

11 hours ago, mgmason said:

Thank you, but I don't see it, perhaps I'm not on the correct screen. Please see the screenshot attached.

The trash folder would be in your home directory, not your domains document root directory

[MoneyBroz]

For instance, this is what it looks like

[KazVee]

I just checked in my test account, and I didn't get a .trash folder in my Home directory until I actually deleted something. Could you try to make a new file and then delete it? Make sure to leave the "Skip the Recycle Bin and permanently remove [filename]" option unchecked. Once the file is deleted, you should see a new .trash folder appear right in your Home directory.

Edited to add: Plesk confirms the .trash folder (they also call it Recycle Bin) is created when the user deletes a file.

[wolstech]

233M    ./httpdocs
3.2M    ./logs
348K    ./private
101M    ./towardchrist.com
270M    ./savvy.press
158M    ./expressfixes.com
0       ./.wp-cli
0       ./wordpress-backups
172M    ./savvyify.com
935M    .

None of that is trash, the account was just full. The above doesn't include databases, mail, or anything else either, just the files. Most if not all of those sites are WP, which is quite bloated, so not surprised by the size. For example the savvy.press one's wp-content folder is 200+MB alone.

Buying more space looks like it was the right call here.  

[mgmason]

Thank you MoneyBroz for the tip. 

Thank you KazVee for suggesting to delete a test file, this worked and I now can see the .trash folder.

Thank you wolstech for reviewing, yes they are all WordPress, which are bloated, I just didn't know how bloated. So I will need to review them.

I'm glad that I bought more space so as I experiment I wont have any overage.

Thanks again everyone, have a great day and feel free to mark this a solved.