I have a lot of audio files in my content folder. I realized that somehow, everything has been duplicated under the media folder. That’s my fault, it was from a previous transfer. I was wondering if I could delete the media folder safely? I tried to remove some files from it and it doesn’t seem to…

If you delete the media folder (which is for example recommended when you update Kirby), it will be recreated automatically. The media folder stores the Panel files and also duplicates all your media files from the content folder, and thumbs generated from these originals. So the media folder is nec…

What happens if I delete the media folder?

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pixelijn December 22, 2020, 12:14pm 4

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What happens if I delete the media folder?

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