Is there any way to delete old image/attachments when deleting or updating records??

I tried different ways to delete old image path but no solutions were working. In fact filament tricks as well has a third party function that too didn't work. Can anyone help to achieve this.

devhammed•7/30/23, 5:50 AM

@justgkp I typically use a File model for attaching things like images to models since it will allow me to store extra metadata like width, height, duration (for videos), page numbers (PDF) etc.

But what matters is that you can call the "using" method on Edit action which allows you to customize the update process, this will also give you the ability to check if there is a previous image and delete it after attaching the new one to the model.

Note that the uploaded file property will be the path string as it would have been saved already according to what you have configured.

And it will be null if the file has been detached in the form so you can also delete the previous image file in that case to persist the removal.

Below is an example code from one of the projects I have worked on:

justgkpOP•7/30/23, 6:20 AM

Image updating but old image not detached.

devhammed•7/30/23, 9:02 PM

Detached as in?

justgkpOP•7/31/23, 12:09 PM

I got the best answer from this link. https://laraveldaily.com/post/filament-laravel-delete-unused-files-model-updated-deleted

Laravel Daily

Filament & Laravel: Delete Unused Files if Model is Updated/Deleted

justgkpOP•7/31/23, 12:10 PM

Thanks for your support as well.