Media Organizer (EN)
Finds media files no longer used in Joomla and helps to remove them safely, with evidence · Version 1.2.0 · Stand 12.09.2026
Media Organizer at a glance
Media Organizer finds media files that are no longer used on your Joomla website and helps you re...
Requirements and installation
System requirements Joomla 6.0 or newer PHP 8.3 or ...
Download key and updates
Media Organizer is a commercial extension. After the installation it works completely — even with...
Quick start: the first scan
A scan rebuilds the inventory of your media files and searches for references to them. It is harm...
The review view
The review view is your workplace. Here you go through the inventory, filter it and select what i...
Reading the evidence: why is a file considered orphaned?
The detail view is the heart of Media Organizer — and the reason you can trust a classification w...
Quarantine, restoring, deleting for good
Cleaning up in Media Organizer always runs in two separate steps: first quarantine (reversible), ...
Common questions and troubleshooting
Classification A file is shown as "without a reference" although it is in use. Why? Because none ...
How the detection works
This chapter explains how Media Organizer arrives at its verdict. You do not need it for everyday...
Extension profiles and the coverage gate
Joomla extensions store media references in very different ways: sometimes as a path in a column,...
Configuration reference
All settings are reached through the Options button at the top right of every Media Organizer vie...
Reports: duplicates and broken references
Besides the unreferenced files, Media Organizer provides two more reports. Both are pure displays...
Optimisation and image editor
Besides cleaning up, Media Organizer can also shrink and edit images. Both are reversible and run...
Automation: scheduled scans and 404 monitoring
Two parts run in the background. For both of them the same rule applies as for everything else: ...
The command line
Media Organizer brings commands for Joomla's console. They are useful above all when a scan runs ...
Permissions, export and privacy
Permissions Media Organizer brings seven actions of its own, which you assign per user group as u...
Large websites and tight time limits
On a website with a few thousand media files and a lot of content, a scan is a great deal of work...
Changelog
This changelog lists every released version of Media Organizer, the most recent first. This pa...