I use org-attach a lot, and if you're not careful you can get a "data/" directory of many gigabytes. Not a problem, until you want to rsync it and it takes all day...
I wrote this to clean my attach directories. I'm not sure how portable it is (and I'm really not pleased with the (concat attach-dir "/" d "/" d+)), but I'm posting it to see if it's useful to anyone. Comments/improvements welcome! If the final product is desirable, I can work it up as a patch. Eric (defun org-attach-clean-dirs (&optional attach-dir clean-archived) (interactive) (let ((attach-dir (if attach-dir (file-name-as-directory attach-dir) (concat (file-name-as-directory org-directory) org-attach-directory))) (valid-dir-re "\\`[0-9a-z-]+\\'") (org-id-search-archives (if clean-archived nil org-id-search-archives))) (dolist (d (directory-files attach-dir nil valid-dir-re)) (dolist (d+ (directory-files (concat attach-dir d) nil valid-dir-re)) (let ((id (format "%s%s" d d+)) (full-path (concat attach-dir "/" d "/" d+))) (unless (org-id-find id) (shell-command (format "rm -fr %s" full-path))))))))