Delay deletion files on s3

[albertopriore]

I'm trying to find a way to delay also the deletion of s3 files.
Do anyone have a solution for that?

Thanks in advance!
Alberto

[arcreative]

👍, I have a model that has_many :attachments, dependent: :destroy, and it takes FOREVER if there are more than a couple of attachments.

[dmitry]

We are just enabled preserve_files option (https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip#file-preservation-for-soft-delete). We don't have much deletions...

[albertopriore]

Ok @dmitry, but later how can I delete the preserved files definitely?

[dmitry]

I guess there are no easy ways to do that. I would do that with paranoia gem (https://github.com/radar/paranoia) and https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/blob/master/lib/paperclip/attachment.rb#L557 embedded in a model callback before real deletion, that can happen in a recurring job (every month or week). Currently we are just storing files and database links (through paranoia like gem). Once we want to destroy all them, we just will need to write some small little modified code taken from attachment.rb (code above).

[tute]

This issue describes a very specific use case. I suggest that you ask about it in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/paperclip, which will get attention
from more people than in this issue tracker.

Closing for now, and happy to continue discussion or reopen if we find improvements to make in paperclip itself.

Thank you for your input! ❤️