[Feature Request] Delete archives of born-digital PDFs

[alexounet2]

Description

Hi,

There is no way of removing PDF/A-archives for documents where an archived version has already been created. This was confirmed as of April 2025.

However, the default behavior starting with v3 has changed, as no archive for born-digital PDF documents is created anymore. Although the new default makes absolute sense, this leads to an inconsistency between pre-v3 and post-v3 uploads in the same library.

Could a feature be added in the CLI-Tools or directly in the GUI to allow deleting previously created archives (i.e. delete the PDF in the Archive folder and modify the database accordingly so that no error comes up during the sanity check)?

Thanks in advance,
Alex

Other

[added on 30.08.2026]
The described feature is currently achievable manually by:
a) exporting the library with document_exporter
b) editing the JSON manifest, replacing all archive paths and checksums with null
c) deleting all archive files
d) importing the library back with document_importer
e) reprocess all documents
This works, with the significant drawback of having to reprocess everything (although this is now faster since no archives are created for digital-born PDF files)