Right click menu option to delete link and file

[I-d-as]

Use case or problem

When you want it to be easy but not too easy to delete both the link and underlying file…

Proposed solution

Especially, if not only, for embedded Pasted image screenshots, a simple “Delete link and file” command available via right click would be a helpful timesaver. For those weary of this as a risk, maybe it could require manually going into settings to disable a warning dialog as opposed to just a “Do not warn me again” checkbox on the dialog. Maybe even the disabling of the warning in the settings creates another warning that requires another checkbox and a click to commit the changes. That dialog could suggest using the File Recovery plugin and using Obsidian .trash folder for deletes (perhaps with options to enable on the fly). Maybe this is all overkill, but I hate deleting inadvertently and unknowingly just as much as the next person.

Current workaround (optional)

An AHK macro to follow link, delete, navigate back, then select and delete link (often disabling the last part as it is a bit finicky in my macro since it is obviously a little context sensitive and doesn’t work inline). I really feel uncomfortable using the macro for obvious reasons hence the feature request. Thanks so much! So excited for the possibilities of both the future and present state of Obsidian!

Related feature requests (optional)

CTRL+z a newly pasted image should delete the link AND the image from Obsidian

Right now pasting an image (let’s say from the web), then changing your mind and using CTRL+z to remove it results in the link being removed, but not the image in Obsidian itself. Manually cleaning those up is tedious. I propose that if an image is pasted from somewhere and only has 1 reference, CTRL+z should also delete the file from Obsidian.

[james1294]

Great Idea. Deleting pages and links in general feels like too many steps, at least the way I’m doing it.

I’d love an option to “nuke” a page, removing its links from everywhere.

[mrlution]

+1 for this request. I want to be able to delete picture quickly

[janpeeters]

Yes, please add this!

[micson]

+1 please add

[micson]

+1 yes please add it

[transmitthis]

Even a modifier key
CTR+Rightclick to show the Delete option would do.

As of now it’s just too many steps to delete something, which leads to a vault full or unused old or unwanted files.

(and the addons to remove them are usually quite dangerous)

[aa1a0995c71c963f]

Now there is an available solution.
I developed a plugin Fast Image Cleaner, which this plug-in allows you to quickly delete picture attachment files and reference links in documents.

For more to see Fast Image Cleaner, this plug-in allows you to quickly delete picture attachment files and reference links in documents.

[Clueless-coder]

I am looking for a similar functionality, but instead with actual notes… mind sharing the AHK script?

[jtucker2]

+1 really annoying having to delete images manually after removing their only link

[Ravens]

Has this feature been added? I embed many notes and I still have to open them up to delete them. Would be a nice convenience to delete a file from the embedding/link. Whether a hot key click combo or right click menu option, either or both will suffice.

Edit: Ok the “Links” plugin provides this feature.

[andrea82]

I have implemented the contextual button for Wikilinks / MarkDown links. This works for both links and embedded graphics. As far as I know, it is the most complete plugin for importing and managing attachments out there (but yeah, I did not test all and every other plugin).

You can install it from the community plugins: “Import Attachments+”. Here is the GitHub page: GitHub - alberti42/obsidian-import-attachments-plus: Import attachments by moving them into the vault..

And here is a small screenshot.

[fumin]

+1
I am using markdown files to management project related attachements that will be updated frequently. It will be easier if there is a right click option to delete old verion attachements on its link.