How to make an image orphaned so that it gets removed?

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

@sam

First we need the rake task, that is definitely slotted. After we have that we can also add a site setting, default off for this behavior. purge_images_from_deleted_posts_days something like that.

Were these ever actioned? I can’t see a Rake task or a setting that will remove images from deleted posts.

When I look in at the old deleted posts (> 1 year old) in our instance, the images are still there.

This matters at the moment as we are moving part of an instance which will involves a heap of topic deletions and historic uploads that need to be removed.

Another way to solve this would be to purge deleted posts and topics from the database, but I can’t see how to do that either.

P.S.

continued here:

Any api to purge old deleted posts / uploads

Call for Help! Can a clever person walk me through combining: AND to make an awesome orphaned uploads purger run from the console? I note that when I use rails db, I’m asked for Password for user discourse:. What do I do with that?

[Hooksmith]

@nathank

Were these ever actioned? I can’t see a Rake task or a setting that will remove images from deleted posts.

When I look in at the old deleted posts (> 1 year old) in our instance, the images are still there.

Same on our instance – would be great to have this. The expectation of a user is that the upload would get purged after 48 hours if their post is deleted, without first needing to edit the link out of the post.

Should we make a separate thread under feature ?