Title: cleans database
Last modified: September 9, 2022

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# cleans database

 *  Resolved [portantica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/portantica/)
 * (@portantica)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleans-database/)
 * What data related to NexGenGallery in the database can be deleted? I ask because
   a plugin to optimize and clean the database highlights these specific Nex Gen
   data for me, but I don’t know if they can be deleted, thanks Vittorio
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/)
 * (@imagely)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleans-database/#post-16000549)
 * Hi [@portantica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/portantica/),
 * Honestly saying, we wouldn’t recommend proceeding with any of such optimizations
   that implies NGG’s database items.
 * For example WP Sweep detects the tags as orphaned terms when they aren’t and 
   using that option would simply delete all of NGG’s tags. We’ll have to use a 
   filter to exclude **ngg_tag **taxonomy from WP Sweep’s array in one of the upcoming
   updates.
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 *  Thread Starter [portantica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/portantica/)
 * (@portantica)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleans-database/#post-16004348)
 * Thank you for your answer; in fact even with other DB cleanup plugin such as 
   garbage collector many orphaned NGG files are detected. Thanks and look forward
   to the arrival of the filter with a next version, Vittorio

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