✅ Delete file when deleting item?

[rancid vault]

I have a "Photo_albums" collection in wich I can create albums and add photos. classic.

Is there a way to automatically delete the image file whenever a user deletes the album? Or when they deselect an image inside the album?

I built this photo galery for a client that, I'm afraid, won't take the time to clean up the file library.

Also: Isinde the file library, is there a way to know if a certain file has a relation to an existing item, and what is that item? That way it would be easier to delete useless files...

thanks!

eric

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[carmine forge]

Feels like a good use case for Flows

[rancid vault]

Yeah that's what I thaught. I could se how it would be a great feature though.

[carmine forge]

My personal feeling is that it's a bit opinionated to build into Core, but I'm not part of the eng team who triages requests. If there's not already one, I'd encourage you to open a feature request for this https://github.com/directus/directus/discussions/categories/feature-requests

[grand stag]

✅ Delete file when deleting item?