Deleting old photos

[Dugan]

Hi,
I have ~740 photos in my "manage attachments" area, and most of them are now irrelevant and can be deleted.
For the life of me, I can't find a way to delete them.
The setup is designed to add, but not delete.
I would be nice if there was a way for me to go in and clear them out in bulk...that's a lot of storage.
Please advise, thanks!

[Oren Grad]

Try going into Forum Actions > General Settings > Attachments (this latter in the "My Settings" box on the left) and see whether that gives you a list of attachments that you can mark for deletion.

[Dugan]

Thank you for the advisement, but it didn't work.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks.

[Tin Can]

Be careful

I deleted my flicker a while back, then had regrets

I did download them all, but many were lost by flicker

When I changed my fickle artistic mood, restore was a flop, some came back, many that were not mine were pasted to my flic

Flic flail gave me at least 1000 record covers I never owned or bought

I know this as I don't buy music

I listen to it on radio....

[Oren Grad]

Should look like this:

[jnantz]

dugan

if you go to "settings" .. >> bottom left go to "attachments" .. you'll see all your attachments

for a while the deleted images stayed in the attachment manager, but were not in-thread, maybe that's what's happening to you?

for whatever reason there's images that are untouchables ...
it might have to do with threads that are locked or something not sure ..

[Dugan]

Ok...
That does work after all, I missed the little tiny boxes in the upper right hand corners.
@jnantz is correct...the "untouchable" images are in locked threads....so I'm going to have to go back a few years and unlock a lot of FS threads in order to clear out old photos of stuff I sold..yeeesh.
Thank you all for the help and advice!

[Oren Grad]

If necessary we (moderators) can delete attachments through the admin panel. If you can give us a general rule like "everything before date X" it's a lot easier for us than if you have many attachments and we need to locate particular ones.

If you need help please PM us with the details.

[Dugan]

Thanks, Oren!
I invested a bit of time this afternoon and cleared out a lot of old, irrelevant photos from FS posts, keeping most from regular threads.
Now I can keep a handle on it moving forward.
I wonder how many other posters have had the same issue?

[Steve Goldstein]

I would encourage you not to delete photos of rare or unusual items as these can be a useful reference to other folks.