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To delete an attachment, you require 'Remove Attachments' permission which is assigned by a space administrator from the Space Administration screens. See Space permissions or contact a space administrator for more information.

To delete an attachment:

  1. Go to the page that contains the attachment.

  2. Choose Tools > Attachments to go to the 'Attachments' view for the page.

    This will display a list of the attachments in the page. Click Remove beside the attachment you want to delete.
  3. Click OK to confirm your action.
Related Topics

Working with Attachments
Finding an Attachment

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  1. Jul 16, 2008

    Russell Harrison

    Is it possible to recover deleted attachments in the same way it is for pages or is it a physical delete as opposed to a logical delete?

    1. Jul 17, 2008

      Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]

      Hi Russell,

      It is not possible to recover the attachment in the same way it is for pages/blog posts. Attachment that has been deleted in Confluence will be removed from the storage location. However, if you have regularly backup your Confluence instance, there is a possibility that you can recover deleted attachments:

      Hope this helps.

      Cheers,
      Azwandi

  2. Oct 29, 2008

    Anonymous

    I am using version 2.9.1, and when I go to the Attachments view of the page I want to remove an attachment from, I do not see a Remove link/button. There's an Edit link and an Add more attachment link but that's all. 

    Also, why do the attachments that are converted during doc import look so much worse that the ones you manually attach, one at a time? Any way to fix this in the wiki -- in configuration or something? 

    1. Apr 15, 2009

      Ben Shoemate

      You can set permissions in confluence to allow some users to remove attachments and other not. If you are in a group without permission, the link is missing. If you need to remove atttachments, ask you admin to give you the permission to do so. The same goes for comments and pages. It is granted on a per space basis so you might be able to do it in some places but not others.

  3. Jul 13, 2009

    Anonymous

    I am a confluence space administrator with all rights. A colleague wanted to remove a document and attach an updated version. However, the original document only shows the check-out function. When she attached the new version, it only shows the checkout function. Any ideas how I can get the old version out and why this is happening?

    Thanks,

    Joyce Hancock

    1. Jul 28, 2009

      Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]

      Hi Joyce,

      I believe that you have the third-party Attachment Checkout Plugin plugin enabled on that instance, which provides the feature described in your comments. If you do not intend to use the plugin, please disable the plugin and see if that helps.

      Cheers,
      Azwan

  4. Sep 02, 2009

    Anonymous

    Is there a possibility/plugin which shows a warning when an attachment which is linked from some page within the space or confluence instance is removed, similar to page removal?

    1. Sep 14, 2009

      Zed Yap [Atlassian]

      Hi,

      Is there a possibility/plugin which shows a warning when an attachment which is linked from some page within the space or confluence instance is removed, similar to page removal?

      I am afraid that the feature requested is not available yet. However, I found an improvement request in JIRA:

      Please add your comments to the discussion, vote on it and add yourself as a watcher for future updates. Also, please bear in mind the following document on how we schedule features for inclusion in our products: Implementation of New Features and Improvements.

      Hope that helps.
      Best rgds,
      Zed

  5. Sep 15, 2009

    Anonymous

    I am unable to delete an attachment due to the fact that my "delete" button is not there. Any ideas?

    1. Sep 15, 2009

      Zed Yap [Atlassian]

      Hi,

      I am unable to delete an attachment due to the fact that my "delete" button is not there. Any ideas?

      You might want to check if the Attachment Remove permission has been granted to that particular user. For more information
      space permission, please visit this documentation:

      Also, you might want to check if the page have Page Restriction. If the page has edit restriction, then some of the user might not
      have the remove attachment option. For more information on page restriction, please refer to this documentation:

      Hope that helps,
      Best rgds,
      Zed

  6. Oct 14, 2010

    Anonymous

    Suggestion: allow for some type of restore deleted attachments mechanism. Versioning should apply to deleted attachments to allow restore.

  7. Nov 15, 2010

    Anonymous

    Hello all,

    my question is: Is there any way to limit the number of attachment versions to be kept in Confluence's database (Oracle, in my case) for a single file? We would like to set some kind of script/trigger to avoid Confluence users to upload a great number of versions of the same file within a short time period, and also to limit the absolute total number of versions per attached file to be kept in database.

    There might be a plugin or some configuration option to achieve this, but I've not been able to find it... Does it exist? If not, which is the best way to do it? Any clues will be highly appreciated!

    Many thanks

  8. Apr 21, 2011

    Anonymous

    I am unable to remove an attachment because the attachment page has a file with an extremely long name. This has caused the edit and remove links to be "scrolled" off of the right hand side of the page. Is there a way to wrap long file names, and how do I get my edit and remove links back in either case?

    1. Apr 21, 2011

      Anonymous

      Update - This appears to be a problem related to a custom theme that has been applied. The theme seems to give us a certain amount of view space that is not as wide as the page is. So it is truncating to the right. I will have to see if I can figure that out, but any suggestions would surely be appreciated.

  9. Sep 13, 2011

    Anonymous

    How can you delete multiple attachments at once?

    1. Nov 21, 2011

      Andreas van Rienen

      This is a question that many of my customers ask on a regular basis. I suggest you have a look at the Configuring a WebDAV client for Confluence page. With the WebDAV correctly set up, you can browse your spaces and pages like a network drive.

      You could thus also delete multiple attachements at once. Watch out: what seems to be a great feature bears the risk of being the source for great headaches: your users could easily - and accidentally - erase many files or entire page families with only one click.

      Use with caution and only grant the option to users you can trust ...

  10. Oct 13, 2011

    Kamil Kisiel

    Is there a way to delete attachments while editing a page? For example having accidentally attached a file to a page while editing, I would like to be able to remove it right then instead of saving the page and removing it after the fact.