Confluentis Unused Attachments

hello Support Team, this addon really helped me to clean up my Server installation ! but one bad information i have and thats why i cannot give four stars. first i tried to reach out the support team ... without answer:-( and there is no cloud version availabel :-( is there a plan that this addon will be available in the cloud? thx in advance!

Hello, We have been testing this add-on in dev environment and so far the results have been good. Before purchasing it and putting in production we would like to ask a couple of questions to support but it seems the email support@alutustech.com is not working. Could someone provide us the correct email? Thanks!

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  AlutusTech

  Hello, Lara

  Indeed we experienced some email issues in the last few weeks and we think they are solved now. Let's continue our email message exchange and see how our plugin can help you.

  Thank you!

I'm not sure if this is good or not. I restored my production backup to a testing Confluence and was ready to make a batch deletion, so that I would see if everything would still be normal after that.However, it seemed like I could only delete unused attachment one by one. I have sent an email to the support 3 days ago and got no response yet. I hope I would get some kind of help by posting a review here.

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  AlutusTech

  Hello,

  Thank you for your feedback.

  Initially, when we used this plugin for our own purpose, we wanted to check the reason why each attachment ended up unused, before deleting it. We did not have such need to delete them all without checking them one by one.

  But I see that for others, it would be very useful to be able to delete all unused attachments without any prior check. We now consider adding a selection checkbox to each row and a button to delete selected attachments. This means we would also need a way to fast select all attachments. There will probably be a need for an option to delete all attachments, including the ones that do not appear on the current page and thus be part of the selection.

  We'll work on it and let you know when this will be ready.

  Thank you!

  P.S. Version 1.0.7 of the plugin allowing deletion of multiple unused attachments at once was published on January 2nd, 2019.

Thank you for developping products. I tested and felt current version have some problems. It makes no distinction between attached files on file-list and others. Generally, file-list use to only for attachment, so often not refered to other pages. And it can't detect files of gliffy plug-in. Even if I have gliffy diagram on confluence page, this plug-in reports "they are unused files". I think deleting files based on plug-in report is dangerous at this time. And I sent questions to their support about this a week ago. Unfortunately I would not receive response yet.

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  AlutusTech

  Hello,

  Thank you for your feedback.

  The "File List Blueprint" that is shipped with Confluence by default creates pages which contain the Attachments Macro. This macro has some properties which allow filtering attachments based on filename pattern or labels. So not all attachments could thus be referenced when the macro is included on a page. This is why we have mentioned the Attachments Macro, Space Attachments Macro and the Gallery Macro in our list of "Known Limitations" in the documentation at:

  http://alutustech.com/confluentis_unused_attachments.html#known-limitations

  We are going to deal with these limitations in a future release, but until then, you can make use of labels to mark the pages that should be ignored when it comes to identifying unused attachments. In the case of the file-list pages, the blueprint also assigns the "file-list" label to the pages that it creates, so you could add this label in the plugin configuration as explained here:

  http://alutustech.com/confluentis_unused_attachments.html#global-configuration

  While dealing with the built-in macros mentioned above would be possible in a future release, taking care of Gliffy attachment references or any other third party plugin macro attachmens references would be more challenging and would probably not make it into our list of improvements. We could maybe add more configuration settings to be able to specify which macros to look for in a page in order to identify potential false positives, such as the ones brought by a Gliffy macro.

  Thank you!

  P.S. Support for attachments macro, space attachments macro and gallery macro has been introduced as early as release 1.0.9, while support for Gliffy and draw.io diagram macros has been added in release 2.0.4

Found via: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16577. This is a great attachment. Helped me easily find and delete an enormous amount of unused attachments. Some additions that would be nice: - show attachment file size in search results - show summary with total attachment count and total size. When filtering by space, show totals only for filtered space - option to suppress notifications when deleting attachment - option to somehow hide or only include image based attachments (.png, .gif, .jpeg, .jpg, etc). We have many pages that have Excel, Visio, PDF attachments just to store them, but may not be referenced on the page. - Possibly ignore pages that use the Gallery macro? We have a few pages with just image attachment dumps that are using the Gallery macro to display them

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  AlutusTech

  Hello, Chris

  Thank you for your feedback. All very good points. We'll start working on adding a configuration page for all these and other options to allow customizing the tool.

  Stay tuned for an update of the add-on coming soon.

  Thank you!

  P.S. Version 1.0.3 of the plugin having the majority of the suggested features was published on January 8th, 2017.