382804 - should be possible to delete multiple attachments at once

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, enhancement, P4)

Description

[timeless]

bug 1024 was attacked by spammers.

Reed clearly wasn't very happy about having to send soo many bugmails to delete all the attachments. It'd be nice if it's possible to delete a number at once. I'm fine with making this extremely painful for the person doing the deletion. If they feel it's worth saving everyone else the bugmail and pain of reading multiple comments later, then they'll be willing to go through it.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bugspam is really not the problem here. But having the ability to quickly delete multiple attachments at once makes sense if a bug is attacked by spammers though.

Comment 2

[Lydia]

It would be really handy to have this feature as part of (or similar to) the "change several bugs at once" feature. 
We handle a lot of attachments in our Bugzilla and many of them are really old and not used anymore - they don't need to be backed up every night. If and administrator could delete attachments depending on a bug's status or other search criteria, that would be really helpful.

Thanks :) Lydia

Comment 3

[Denis Roy]

The occasional bug abuse would make this handy. I had to clean all these using the MySQL command line, as deleting them one-by-one using the UI would have been too tedious.

http://bugs.eclipse.org/13595