removing attachments that are not linked to a page

Question

Hi there - I've got lots on info on finding attachments and how to delete them in Confluence. The issue is that I know we have documents in Confluence that may at one time have been attached to a page, but are no longer attached, and have not been deleted. They still pop up in search results so we really want to get rid of them as they have old info. Any thoughts would be great, thanks!

Bill Rudy · Answer

You can use the Space Attachment macro, but Atlassian is getting rid of that (and by the way not replacing it...you don't want to know their weak workaround, frankly, which wouldn't help you in this case anyway).

I think if you know the file names, when you do a simple search (in the search bar in the upper right), they should pop up on the page they are attached to (although the page itself is grayed out, so it might be hard to see what page that is).  I hope that helps!

Jennifer Weber · Answer

great question - I'm largely certain that as we have attached newer versions of these docs to various pages, the old ones have been unattached, but not deleted. We've just upgraded to the latest version of Confluence. In the previous version we were in, I believe we could put in a search term and find documents that had been uploaded to Confluence, but not attached to a page. Does this help/any more ideas of what could be going on and how I could find these old docs? Thanks!

Bill Rudy · Answer

Hi Jennifer:   I'm curious, how do you know they aren't attached to a page? Just making sure you don't mean not "on" the page vs not attached as an attachment can still be linked to a page but not displayed on the page.