Clean Up Dynamic_Avia folder

Hi Nikko:

Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll certainly backup the contents of that folder before doing anything. Might I need to resave anything else, or just theme options?

Scott

Ok, this just became a bigger issue. In the live site, there’s 2.4GB (that’s right, GIGAbytes) of stuff in the dynamic_avia folder, mostly avia-footer-scripts-*.js and avia-merged-styles-*.css. I put a copy of the site on my local machine because I’m working on a project, and I just discovered that new copies of these avia-footer-scripts-*.js and avia-merged-styles-*.css files are being produced for every page load when the page is not already cached (by Cache Enabler). I don’t know why they would be generated with every page load. I thought they were just generated when you saved the theme options. I also don’t know why unique versions would be produced instead of just replacing the existing ones. Perhaps someone should take a look at the code that generates these dynamic files.

So far I’ve found two of my sites that are doing this. One is running Enfold 4.7.1, the other 4.7.2.

I’ll paste the settings from the Theme Options / Performance tab below for the site running 4.7.2. I use the Cache Enabler caching plugin for both, but it is turned off on my local development machine, which appears to be why the files are generated with each page load. Please tell me if there’s something I can change in the performance settings to fix this, of if some malfunctioning performance feature needs to be disabled.

Thanks!

Scott

Performance Tab Settings –
CSS file merging and compression – On
Javascript file merging and compression – On
Http security level for checking readability of merged files – Use ssl if needed (default)
Disabling of template builder elements – Load only used elements
Scan Widgets for Theme Shortcodes – Do not scan
Self hosted videos and audio features – Default-only load when needed
Disable external video features – Off
Disable the blog – Off
Disable Emoji/Smiley Support – On
Disable jQuery Migrate – On
Load jQuery in your footer – On
Load google fonts in footer – Off
Delete old CSS and JS files? – Off

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by scotthco.

Hi Nikko:

Sorry it took me so long to do some more checking, but I do have some more info for you.

On my development machine, I deactivated all plugins, including Cache Enabler. I then backed up and removed the dynamic_avia folder contents.

I made a small tweak to the theme settings, saved, and the files generated were index.php, bennetts_bbq.css, and avia-gutenberg-dynamic-bennetts_bbq.css (no other css of js files). I then hit the home page, and avia-footer-scripts-blahblah.js and avia-merged-styles-blahblah.css were generated. Hit the home page again, and two more of these were generated.

I went back to theme settings / performance tab and turned off both CSS and JS file merging and compression. THEN it stopped generating those two files with each pageload. Turned on CSS file merging and compression, it started producing the CSS files with each pageload again. Turned CSS off and JS on, and it stopped producing the CSS files and started producing the JS files.

So it’s definitely got something to do with these two performance settings. It’s quite easy for me to duplicate; not sure why you can’t.

Scott