Found 28 gigs of unneeded image backup files! Saved me costly hosting upgrades

Website with a lot of images and when I went to create a staging copy of my site to do so updates, I was surprised my site had exploded in size… and I didnt have enough remaining space left in my hosting plan. I was contemplating an expensive hosting upgrade to get more storage space.

With a Disk Usage Insights scan it found TWO 13gb files that I had forgotten where there… well i didnt really know? I am also switching to a new webp/avif creator and several months prior had discovered I was creating TONS of unnecessary file sizes and I ran a tool to wipe them out… not realizing it created 26gb of zip files of the deleted images. BOOM… there was my 26gb explosion in file size. in regards to my needed staging site copy it was really 56gb of data lost.

Worth every penny… which I paid nothing! Looking for a donate option.