I suppose this is a feature request: I want to delete a file, but I get a message: "The file..is in use and cannot be deleted". The problem is:

a) I'm not sure it IS in use somewhere (ie. I think this is wrong, it's not really in use)

and

b) if it IS in use..where? It seems there should be some sort of indicator on WHERE it is in use so we can deal with that dependency. Otherwise, we're pretty much in the dark about how to fix this. I'd recommend a list of nodes below the 'in use' message.

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dave reid
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This is pretty much a duplicate of #1286508: Provide a file usage report tab at file/%file/usage which we also hope to re-use on the delete form. You can see for yourself where a file is in use by looking at the file_usage table and finding the records that match your file's FID value.