Review options to allow the sitebuilder to delete files from the file tab

Hi there,

The change proposed in Delete media assets from the filesystem after parent media entity is deleted will not work for orphan files already in the system. Plus the site-builder should be a able to delete files from the system in any case.

Options:

File Delete (D8) https://www.drupal.org/project/file_delete uses the temporary flag so we'll still have to wait for the offending file to go away with the garbage collection.

• Pros: Uses the same process proposed for 3150710
• Cons: From a sitebuilder perspective, we can assume that something bad has happened and we want the file gone right away at this stage!

Use view bulk operations.

• Pros: Uses our consistent approach to these tasks
• Cons: we tested it with the delete entity action and it did not work. The system yielded an access denied.
• Mitigation: research options and tools available.

Considerations

• Create a are you sure dialogue
• Don't allow this for usage >0?

Ta,

Heike