Deleting uploaded files via buckets

[abitdodgy]

I read in discussion #112 that the ability to delete uploaded files was added to the backlog. I would like to suggest a way to do this if it has not been done. Whether or not it is within the scope of Uppy is for others to decide.

Refile, a Ruby gem for file uploads does it this way: You create two buckets on S3, cache and storage. Refile uploads directly to cache. Once the upload form is submitted to the server, Refile issues a call to S3 to move the uploaded files from cache to storage.

The cache bucket has an auto-expiration setting that deletes files after a certain period of time, which deletes files that belong to abandoned uploads.

I'm not sure how this would work with Uppy, but I hope it was useful.

[arturi]

Hi! Thanks for the proposal, we’ll refer to it if/when we get to working on this feature 👍

[kvz]

Thank you for the additional information, we've added the appropriate references to our backlog!