Question: How do you delete uploads where the files were accidentally removed

[jrobiii]

Describe the bug
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To Reproduce
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• I have created volumes in the local folder for mongo_data and uploads_data

1. Add a new file listing and add an Icon (i.e. upload)
2. Go to the the docker-compose uploads_folder and remove the file(s)
3. Refresh the browser and go back to add a new file listing
4. Observe that there is still a "placeholder" for the upload, but it is the following icon (see Screenshots)

Expected behavior
I expected that since the files no longer existed that the "My Icons" would be empty. I also could not find any way to remove previously uploads.

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Container logs:
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Your docker-compose.yml content:
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Base docker-compose.yml

services:
  traefik:
    extends:
      file: ./traefik/docker-compose.yml
      service: traefik

  astroluma:
    extends:
      file: ./astroluma/docker-compose.yml
      service: astroluma

  astroluma_mongodb:
    extends:
      file: ./astroluma/docker-compose.yml
      service: astroluma_mongodb

  n8n:
    extends:
      file: ./n8n/docker-compose.yml
      service: n8n

  sysmon:
    extends:
      file: ./sysmon/docker-compose.yml
      service: uptimekuma

networks:
  traefik_net:
    name: traefik_net
  astroluma_network:
    name: astroluma_network

astroluma/docker-compose.yml

services:
  astroluma:
    image: sanjeet990/astroluma:latest
    container_name: astroluma
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    environment:
      PORT: 8000
      NODE_ENV: production
      MONGODB_URI: mongodb://astroluma_mongodb:27017/astroluma
    volumes:
      - ./uploads_data:/astroluma/storage/uploads
    depends_on:
      - astroluma_mongodb
    restart: always
    networks:
      - traefik_net
      - astroluma_network
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.astroluma.rule=Host(`homepage.domain.name`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.astroluma.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.astroluma.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt"
      - "traefik.http.services.astroluma.loadbalancer.server.port=8000"

  astroluma_mongodb:
    image: mongo:6.0
    container_name: astroluma_mongodb
    networks:
      - astroluma_network
    ports:
      - "27017:27017"
    volumes:
      - ./mongo_data:/data/db
    restart: always

volumes:
  mongo_data:
    driver: local
  uploads_data:
    driver: local

Other details:

• Host CPU Type [e.g. x64]: x64
• Host OS [e.g. Ubuntu 22.04]: Ubuntu 24.04

Additional context
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[Sanjeet990]

Actually it was not planned that a user might remove the icons from the volumes but at the same time I believe this is a total valid "Use case". Thank you for pointing that out!

What can you do at the moment to remove that:

Since there is no provision to remove them for now, you can use MongoDB Compass and connect to mongodb://your_ip:27017/astroluma and remove the icon entries from the icons collection.

What I can do:

I'm adding this to my backlog items. I'll address this on priority basis in the coming update, where user can directly remove the icons from the Administrative interface.

[jrobiii]

Wow! Thanks for the quick response. I'll check out MongoDB Compass. Thanks again!

[jrobiii]

That worked a charm! Thanks

[Sanjeet990]

Thank you again for confirming! This will be fixed with the next release. Thank you for trying Astroluma! ⭐