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Hi guys,

as a workaround please check Extender for Confluence app and documentation Delete specific versions of an attachment 

Cheers

Adam

I also think this is urgently needed. I know that Atlassian has built in similar things with Confluence 7.16 - but only for DataCenter!

As beside not everybody having the possibility to immediately go to DC or Cloud (because having several thousand licensed users on server will not have management jumping out of joy for financial reasons when you come with such migration wishes), this REST based delete option for attachments is a must if you want to reduce your data storage size BEFORE any cloud move!

I tried the work around using the DELETE method on 

/rest/experimental/content/{id}/version/{versionId}

but also this might not be the way to go, as it seems to remove only the version from the database but NOT from the filesystem - compared to manual deletion which does exactly that.

Having attachments with versions > 1000 (remember companion app?) manual deletion of old version cannot be the way to go.

Team, Please let us know is there any way to remove attachments from trash, as all said above its pain and space consuming part on the server where it is not needed.

Is there an API for removing all attachments on a given page? It is a pain to remove the attachment one by one. That slows down the process. When the page is updated, we need to update the attachment as well. That results in one PUT call + calls as many as the number of attachments. So basically, to update a page you end up making multiple calls. Is there a way to delete all attachment at once? I can do a multipart POST call to upload all a

@Jeff Grant, I was able to cobble together a working bash script that allows me to update my existing attachments on a specific page. I don't know if there are better ways to do this, but it works for me. I realize this is not Python, but maybe my script can help you figure out what you need to do.

# Set initial variables for connection and other items in the script
USER_NAME=tempuser
USER_PASSWORD=password
CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL='https://<your.site.url>/confluence' # update this to match your site config
PAGE_ID=31424562 #page with the attachments
base_dir="../BuildInfoFiles" # this is where I have my files, if you have them in the same dir as this script, you won't need this variable
date=$(date +%m/%d/%Y)
time=$(date +%T) 

# Populate this array with the attachment id in the same order as they are in your directory
# I have actually put these in a different order and it still seems to work
 
arrayid_list=(
 31424615
 31424591
 31424579
 31424576
 ) 

id_index=0 # create the index variable so that we can increment later 

# Iterate through the text files in the current directory to upload each file to the target page
# Again, if you are not using a separate folder to hold your files for upload, adjust (i.e. "for i in *.txt; do" to get all text files in the current directory)

for i in ${base_dir}/*.txt; do 

file_id=${id_list[$id_index]} # create the variable for the correct attachment id that will be used in the curl command 

curl -D- -u $USER_NAME:$USER_PASSWORD -X POST -H 'X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck' -F 'file=@'$i -F 'comment=Uploaded on '${date}' at '${time} -F 'minorUpdate=true' ${CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL}/rest/api/content/${PAGE_ID}/child/attachment/${file_id}/data >/dev/null

(( id_index ++ )) # increment the index

done

Like I said, there may be simpler ways to do this, but it does what I need it to do for a specific page that I have attachments that are pushed from our build server to keep our build info updated. Hope it helps.

Hello together, 

we also need some information about this issue. 

Solutions?  Is there python code for removing an existing attachment? Or updating (rather than uploading) an attachment?

Issue:  We are successfully uploading confluence attachments, but when we try to do an overwrite, it errors and says attachment is already there.

Rafael Corredor,

My apologies. It should be both. Seems I missed one of the two.

   <entry>
    <string>com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-file-notifications:file-content-remove-notification</string>
    <boolean>false</boolean>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <string>com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-file-notifications:file-content-remove-email-notification-template-body</string>
    <boolean>true</boolean>
  </entry>

My prod is at 6.13.11, but am going to 7.4.3 next week. Works as expected in both and in all my envs. I missed it because I have a lot of behaviors disabled.