Rick,
Thanks for the post. I think you are pretty much right on with my situation. I don't know much about this, but am fairly quick on the uptake. I have managed to get GIT on my website, use FileZilla to create a copy of my website on my laptop, download a copy of MySQLdatabase using phpAdmin, requested SSH access to my server, and managed to log in. I am googling commands for SSH, and it reminds me a bit of DOS. (Don't know how old you are, but its seems there are some similarities between command line stuff in SSH and the original DOS from the 80s.
Anyway, trying to get a local clone of moodle using GIT seemed to push my server over the 40GB limit. I deleted the partial clone (I put it in a test space) and am now working on deleting some stuff to make more space.
This brings up an important question. I am not really sure how the moodle file repository works. If I delete a large video file, is it ever really deleted from the database? I remember in earlier versions of moodle, if I deleted a file, and then uploaded a new file with the same name, it would somehow find the old file and use it. I was a bit surprised that the old file was still around. Now, when I delete a video, I notice that the size of my site does not decrease. This leads me to believe that moodle keeps a copy of it somewhere anyway.
Any thoughts?
