Migrating off of large-media

[agreene]

Hey Folks,

I’m having a hard time migrating off of large-media. This is for a repository (sjifire.org) which hasn’t been active in awhile, so I’ve needed to download the repo and reinstall netlify-cli.

I can’t get large-media to work. netlify-cli was installed and the lm:status showed everything correctly, but when i try to clone from github (using ssh), I get the netlify username/password prompts Username for 'https://www.sjifire.org':

I’ve tried netlify-cli, I’ve tried creating a user-token to enter as my password, but no luck.

What I really need is the ability to download all the netlify large-media files, and ideally, all the commit history as well as some of the files were moved or deleted. BUT the most important is to just get all the files.

I can see the files in the netlify admin interface under site/Large Media, but I don’t see a way to download them.

Thanks!
Adam

[agreene]

hey folks,

I need to move forward. I cannot build or modify the website right now with Netlify Large Media. If you can’t help me resolve the above issue, can you delete large media and I’ll figure it out on my own. I need to get updates to the website back up and running.

thank you,
adam

[luke]

Hi, @agreene. Git LFS is an add-on for Git that handles the storage and checkout of certain (typically, very large) files differently.

Large Media is a Git LFS service that also offers image transformations (although, I’d recommend using Netlify Image CDN for that instead these days).

My point is, if you have been committing those files to Large Media, they may only exist in that Large Media instance and if we delete them you will have no way to recover them.

So, there are two possible ways forward.

Either:

• we can delete the Large Media instance for this site and you can try to recover them without Large Media

Or:

• we can try to get Large Media access working on your local system

If you want to remove Large Media, would you please read this and let us know when you are ready to proceed?

[Support Guide] Uninstalling Large Media

Important This guide covers the process of uninstalling the Large Media add-on for a site. Notice: Once our support team uninstalls the Large Media add-on any copies of those files are no longer retrievable using our service. Please be absolutely certain you have local backups of all required files before directing our support team to uninstall the Large Media add-on from your site. Uninstalling Large Media Two considerations before we begin There are several ways to approach removing the add-…

If you would prefer to troubleshoot the local system’s access to Large Media, would you please try the steps here and let us know the results?

[Support Guide] Troubleshooting your Netlify Large Media Configuration

Last reviewed & updated by Netlify Support on May 25, 2022 So, you are trying to use the Netlify Large Media feature and it isn’t working as expected. Where do you begin troubleshooting? Well, we’re happy to help. Here are the requirements for our Large Media plugin to work correctly. Requirements The first two requirements are: access to a Netlify account with permissions for this site the site is deployed via a tracked git repo (not manual deployments) Netlify Large Media…

We’ll proceed however you prefer so please just let us know what that preference is.