Attachment management stuff

[Red :)]

I think it would be great if we could do these three things:

1. Be able to search for a specific attachment on the 'My Attachments' page (I'm basically asking for a search bar)
2. Be able to rename an attachment/put tags on attachments
3. (Originally @Benji's request which I agree with) Be able to delete attachments from one place without having to edit posts

 

Edited March 20, 2021 by Red :)

[colonel_mortis]

How often do you end up looking at old attachments vs just uploading new ones?

[Red :)]

1 minute ago, colonel_mortis said:

How often do you end up looking at old attachments vs just uploading new ones?

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such as:

[colonel_mortis]

And why do you want to find them in the My Attachments page (your suggestion 1) or to remove them from all posts (suggestion 3)?

[Red :)]

2 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

And why do you want to find them in the My Attachments page (your suggestion 1) or to remove them from all posts (suggestion 3)?

suggestion 1:

sometimes when I'm outside of the forum and I don't have the original files available to me and the attachment is on the forum I tend to try to find them using the My Attachments page (although admitedly this suggestion goes along with suggestion 2)

 

suggestion 3:

sometimes when you want to delete an image off of the forum altogether and said image is on a lot of posts of yours, right now it would be required to go through all of them

ok you've got a point I actually cannot really think of a justification for the third one, perhaps @Benji will fill in

[colonel_mortis]

24 minutes ago, Red said:

sometimes when I'm outside of the forum and I don't have the original files available to me and the attachment is on the forum I tend to try to find them using the My Attachments page (although admitedly this suggestion goes along with suggestion 2)

It looks like supporting renames would be a non-negligible amount of work (it shouldn't break things, but it would need a UI and backend to be built to support it), and I don't think this is a particularly common use case.