Problem

For the users of the old version (below 8.8), bulk deleting was not yet supported by Confluence. However, it may be required by Confluence user for below reasons:

• Is there a way to delete Confluence attachments in bulk, since deleting one by one needs too much effort when the number of attachments is big.

• I would like to delete a large number of attachments in bulk before migrating to Cloud. Is there any way to do this?

This article provided some workarounds to achieve the user’s needs, especially for old version users.

Solution

Method 1

Starting with Confluence 8.8, we have added the ability to delete multiple attachments at once. With this function, you can delete multiple attachments on one page at once. However, to take advantage of this feature, you will need to upgrade to the version of Confluence 8.8.x or higher.

Method 2

Bulk deletion can be achieved by using some add-on apps on Atlassian Marketplace. As examples, we provide the following: Please refer.

• Delete Attachments (Statistics) 

• Page Assistant

Method3

You can also delete attachments using REST API as per our knowledge below.

• How to delete an attachment from a Confluence page using the REST API

The customer must create a script to delete multiple attachments at once based on the above REST API.