Smart delete removes files and breaks posts
Smart delete removes files that are not duplicates or leaves attachments pointing at missing files, and permanent delete has no undo.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 8 December 2019 · last reported 16 January 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners cleaning duplicate images say the smart delete step removed files that were not duplicates, leaving broken images across posts.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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