# How to ban TL1 or other groups to attach attachments in topics?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ban-tl1-or-other-groups-to-attach-attachments-in-topics/346205
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 8, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ban-tl1-or-other-groups-to-attach-attachments-in-topics/346205 "2025-01-08T15:45:47Z")
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### Author: ![bryce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bryce/32/377822_2.png) [@bryce](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bryce)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ban-tl1-or-other-groups-to-attach-attachments-in-topics/346205/11 "2025-01-08T18:05:16Z")

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> [@copymonopoly](#):
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> Also, I still don’t understand whether the files will occupy my S3 bucket if they upload successfully but don’t publish a topic.

[Here’s](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cleaning-up-uploads-and-purging-uploads-from-s3/248343) some documentation regarding that.

> [@Cleaning up uploads and purging uploads from S3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cleaning-up-uploads-and-purging-uploads-from-s3/248343/1):
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> ## Purging S3 uploads
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> Cleaning up orphan and deleted uploads works similarly for both local and S3 storages. The only difference between the local storage and S3 storages is that the cleanup of the S3 uploads is automatically handled by S3 via a [tombstone policy](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/3141c179f727772bf32798b48f5355918c3924b4/lib/s3_helper.rb#L49-L66). See [Managing your storage lifecycle](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html) for additional details about how this is handled on S3.

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