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Deleted attachement - hidden, renamed or really deleted?

Florian Schmidt
Florian Schmidt June 19, 2017

I have a question regarding deleting attachments in Confluence. I you delete it, is it

  • deleted? I mean really gone?
  • hidden?
  • renamed or renamed in db?
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Thomas Schlegel
Thomas Schlegel
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June 19, 2017

It depends...

on the version of Confluence you are using. 

With version 5 and before, deleted attachments are gone. If you don't have a backup of the server, they are lost.

With version 6, deleted attachments are moved to trash bin. A space admin can restore your files from there. 

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June 19, 2017

They're deleted.  Gone. 

You'd need to do an undelete at the operating system level to recover the physical file.

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