Remove attachement once synced with remote database?

[ronag]

Is this possible? Without actually causing the remote database to delete the attachment as well.

[corps]

You could have a push only PouchDB, and listen for its change events (you get an event emitter from calling push or sync), then delete content locally once the relevant change event details that the attachment has been pushed. (edits: typing poorly for some reason)

[ronag]

But when I delete the event locally won't that deletion propagate to the server with the next sync?

[nolanlawson]

I think what you want is purge(), which is not implemented yet.

[natcohen]

@ronag I had the same problem with archives... I wanted to be able to delete a document locally while keeping it on the remote server (which is what you want to do with attachments). My suggestion would be to use a different document for your attachment and use this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23907966/couchdb-automatic-archiving

Read carefully the comments of the answer. It is a really nice solution! Thanks to 'skiqh'

[daleharvey]

Closing as a dupe - #802