Deleting images from Wiki, it keeps a record of those images on the ftp I can see that in the images folder, there is a delete folder. is it safe to delete the entries from the delete folder? What ramifications are there fore deleting files from here? Is this the only way to clean up past images that are no longer needed?
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It's mentioned in Manual:$wgSaveDeletedFiles.
I guess it would just mean you couldn't undelete those files.
Found mention of it here: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/67372/expunge-deleted-version-of-uploaded-file
That mentions this maintenance script: Manual:deleteArchivedFiles.php.