I wondered how this worked.  Any chance the Em rebuild thread photos be saved I do t feel like recreating them ?

There's two ways of addressing the current problem ;

1 - Remove attachments older than X Days
2 - Remove attachments larger than X kbytes

We cannot select areas or members as part of the pruning criteria. As an example - we want to keep all the restoration attachments as the whole point of a restoration thread is to demonstrate and document using photos. We can't exempt "member name" or anyone else. My issue is that I have over 750MB of pictures - hundreds of them. All threads have to be edited - and I linked all of mine !

The answer is to host files on photo sites such as photobucket. I don't know what their policy regarding retention is, but they are set up to store and manage photos. Linking to photobucket removes the risk of the attachment pruning process within the forum software.

To "fix" your restoration threads, you will need to host the photos externally and edit your old threads. We can assist you in doing this.