How to delete blog post images and media when the post is deleted?
By Collin Lafrance on Saturday, 19 December 2020
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Hello, we recently deleted alot of old blog posts on our site, however it seems based on the space used by the site that the images and media (video and audio) of those posts were not also deleted at the same time.

Is there a way to get the left over media deleted?
Hello Collin,

The behavior for media after the blog is deleted, Easyblog will move those media into this folder: ../images/easyblog_images/[userid]/[postTitle]/. So, let say, the author id for the deleted post is 123 and the title for the post is MyStory, the folder for the media is ../images/easyblog_images/123/MyStory/

Hope this helps.
Nik Faris
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Monday, 21 December 2020 11:40
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Hi Nik,

So I should be able to safely delete the images from those folders without issue?

In other words, anything moved to these locations is from a deleted blog post which should be safe to delete?

Or are published blog posts also stored in these folders?
Collin Lafrance
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Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:34
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Hello Collin,

So I should be able to safely delete the images from those folders without issue?
- To be safe, just delete folder with the title of the deleted blog post. For example, your deleted post was MyPost. The folder should be MyPost/.
Nik Faris
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Tuesday, 22 December 2020 10:21
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