Uploads not getting orphaned and purged

[JammyDodger]

Hello and welcome @Uphill4721

I think there’s some relevant info in these topics, if I remember rightly:

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

Because message revisions are kept, and older removed messages are also kept, and even removed topics are still there in database, how do I make an image orphaned so it gets removed automatically by a sidekiq job?

Delete deleted-posts permanently in bulk?

I think the attachments will be cleaned up by one of the daily jobs, as long as they’re not part of the latest version of the post. So changing the deleted post to ‘(deleted by admin)’ or something would make its attachment part of the edit history and would then orphan it (thus scooping it up in the ‘clear orphan’ clean-up). I am only theorising though, so this may be wrong. Source: