https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/captcha-writing-thousands-of-files Gravity Support Forums Topic: Captcha writing thousands of files en-US Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:01:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/captcha-writing-thousands-of-files#post-71120 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:55:31 +0000 Chris Hajer 71120@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Depending on the performance issue you're having, I don't think having 20,000 files (or more) in a folder is going to slow the performance down. Having to scan through all those files and find the necessary one would take a little time, but that should not cause noticeable performance problems.</p> <p>Since Really Simple Captcha is a 3rd party plugin, I would check their support. I did find this topic at the wordpress.org forums:</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-really-simple-captcha-wpfc7_captcha-folder-is-flooded-with-png" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-really-simple-captcha-wpfc7_captcha-folder-is-flooded-with-png</a></p> <p>It suggests checking the permissions, and manually deleting the old files. It also had some additional questions about how old the files were, and a modification to the plugin files, which I would not recommend.</p> <p>Please let us know if you need more help. The cleanup should be done by the RSC plugin, not Gravity Forms. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/captcha-writing-thousands-of-files#post-71059 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:19:19 +0000 WebMechanix 71059@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm not sure how the "really simple captcha" plugin is supposed to work.. but in my instance, it's writing about 20,000 files to the following folder every week...</p> <p>wp-content\uploads\gravity_forms\captcha-12345678asdfghjk345678ertyu567</p> <p>Maybe it's supposed to be deleting previously written files?</p> <p>My systems guy says that's the reason for poor site performance.. of course I don't believe him.</p> <p>Any ideas? </p>