Over time working on a local and development server I’ve accumulated some junk in my wp-content/uploads folder which are not in the database. The folder and database entry are fairly large and so I was wondering if there was a plugin or way to do some type of “garbage collection” and delete items in the uploads folder which are not in the media library.
Plugin or method to delete uploads not in media library?
There is no easy way to do this. You could query the WP database for wp_posts that are media uploads and then run a script to match those again the files in the uploads folder, but even this would be a little shaky.