Howdy @luke2, you could build a little admin interface of your own for this (just a quickie RG with a “Do a search for…” parameter filename contains… contents of your own input. (In that way you could also see the image itself, etc. and any/all other metadata you might need?)
If you are logged in with all privileges you could find anything. (Set privacy rule on thing(s) you need to search such that you can see them all. U could do this by your account’s unique ID or create an admin type role [a list of users that have all access]…)
Well, I’m assuming the files are associated with some data type. You are probably correct that you can’t just search for “files” as a field or just “any file that has been uploaded” (as one can in the Bubble data tab).
There’s kind of two types up uploaded files: files you (as admin, programmer, site builder) upload to use in your app and then files that users are doing stuff with as they interact with your app.
Those second types of files SHOULD be associated with some data type of course.
Unfortunately I have many files I need to delete in the ‘File Manager’ after doing a re-design will a lot of SVG icons and therefore going through them all one by one (as they were uploaded via the Bubble Editor) is a painful job at the moment, saving for a rainy day.
Out of interest, I assume its possible to stack data types within a repeating group in this exact scenario?
For example on a repeating group the data type could be ‘Image’ but on the ‘Data source’ I imagine we’d express ‘Do a search for’ and then use the ‘Intersect with …’ to keep building on the list right?
I have 28,027 files I somehow created when experimenting with a plugin. Ummmm, this is really difficult to delete them one by one. Is there anyway you can please make a check mark so i can delete them either all at once or at least more than one at a time? Please?
I can’t figure out how i could do this in my app somehow. Doesn’t seem possible to access these files any other way. … Help.
I used the file manager today to delete a specific file ( by time and date ) to see if it would disappear on the App. It’s still displayed on APP even after a refresh and a logout login >>
How can this be ??
II do have 49 copies of this file ( as a result of much testing / trial and error too )
So is the App showing incorrectly a file that doesnt exist.
This is on the DEV side, note.
Now, however I cannot trust the File Manager is this is the case.
But I did get a 404 when clicked on its file.
Nonetheless the fact that bubble repeating group still picks it up from Search Documents is a concern. The file should not be in the list I deleted it from AWS ( at least that’s what you said this does )…The file may be gone, but it’s reference still exits ??
Tried this again with another user account file.
Used File manager to delete unique instnace of file
this time the app not only still shows the reference, you can click on the file and view it as well.
File Manager is therefore imho totally unreliable, at least on DEV side…
I might give it a try on Live side just be sure
I can not delete a file.
If I click delete, the item will be removed temporarily. If I refresh the bubble editor, or click Search on File Manager, the item will return. I will see that the item has not been deleted.
