We’re excited to announce an update to the File Manager section of the Editor. In addition to giving it a cleaner new look, we’re rolling out a much-requested piece of new functionality: the ability to select and delete multiple files at once.
You’ll be able to pick files to delete individually, or clean them up a page (or a whole search!) at a time. If you’ve been putting off clearing out your files up till now, we hope this change will make your spring cleaning much simpler and easier.
@shaylew thanks for the update and this much needed feature. Any chance we might get a file manager feature to help with cleaning up “orphaned” private files (i.e. files that were uploaded as private but that are no longer attached to anything, which could occur for a variety of legitimate reasons)? Even adding the ability to sort by the “Attached To” column would be a big help.
@JohnMark thanks for showcasing that as a possibility…I also can’t find it
I looked where I’d expect it to be which would be where the delete uploaded file (singular) is but it is not there and don’t see a checkbox on it to turn it into a list
Settings in the app would imply the release would have been updated automatically
I think this is only an editor side feature, which means you can now delete multiple files at once on your end as an editor by going to the “Data tab” and “File Manager” subtab.
On the rendering side, I don’t think the update allows you to add any workflow to let your users delete multiple files at once.