How to restrict deletion of a file?

[Thomas Bitschnau]

We are handling certain files in our team with Confluence and I want to be sure these files can't be deleted.

Is there a way to restrict this for certain pages or whole spaces only?

[Tom Crespi · Accepted solution]

<<Is there a way to restrict this for certain pages or whole spaces only?>>

Hey Thomas,

Manleen's suggstion works at a page level. For whole spaces, go into Permissions for the space and choose whom can delete by checking or unchecking the Attachments-Delete permission. 

And if you're watching the space or page, you can be notified of deleted attachments and if one is deleted, as long as you are using a version of Confluence that is 5.x (can't recall the point version) or greater, then you can restore it from Space Admin>Content Tools>Trash (in the pre-5.x days, restoring attachments was a quite difficult task.

[Thomas Bitschnau]

I didn't know of the Trash. This helps a lot. Thank you for your help!

[Manleen Johar]

You can apply restrcitions at page level. Click the restrict icon () at the top of the page and specify the list of users who can view and edit the page.