[New Feature] Delete file action

Hi All!

Ran into an issue on one of the apps, and looking for community wisdom here.
It looks like if you delete the object in the DB, but not specifically delete a file via the WF step, it remains “orphaned” in the application, taking up space.

This may not be an issue for most of the apps, but if the app is working with a lot of large sized objects (e.g. high-res images) then this can quickly become an issue, because unless you’re cleaning\deleting all the files from day one, you may have quite the backlog of “orphaned” records\files that you cannot reach in any way from your application, since the objects that they were linked to are gone.

We ran into a case when we have few thousand orphaned files on the DB and no way to delete them except manually clicking on each one of them in the File Manager view.

Any ideas from the community and\or Bubble team of how this can be handled now as an intermediate solution until there are some more powerful file management flows\tools in the editor interface?

That’s quite a problem for our particular Bubble instance now, as it eats up 50-60% of app’s capacity for nothing :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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