XenForo Cleaning up old content does not seem to save space - why?

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Mikethemix

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I have been doing some aggressive pruning of a test site, dumped most of the forum nodes which had very large number of pdf attachments, also pruned most of the XFMG categories with about 12,000 images removed.
However, that has not significantly reduced the storage size.
I have rebuilt caches and it seems those files are still there, judging by the numbers shown.
File manager shows most of the storage is in public html, in the attachments folders.
Is there a routine to clean those...

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