Thread:Project:Support desk/How do I efficiently manage unused images?

Hi

For years, my wiki has grown up and it has a lot of images that are no longer in use. Special:UnusedFiles reports about 1.5K such images. However, quick browsing the images hints that some of the unused files are a sort of interest and preferrably should be restored. But I have no idea how to get pages images were linked to, so the images are true orphans now.


 * Is it possible to perform this kind of search through the history?
 * If I see that an image is really should be deleted forever, is it possible to purge such images so they won't appear in the Special:UnusedFiles anymore? (hope for extension, because I'm afraid of data corruption making changes in the file system)

Thanks in advance.