How to remove a user's profile avatar from profile and attachments?

[Stephan Eisvogel]

When employees leave, data protection laws in the EU demand cleaning out personal info, including pictures of users. In Confluence 5.7.4 there appears to be no way to "unset" a user's profile in the GUI, other than overwrite it with a dummy image. Older versions had a button to delete one's own pictures. Also it appears that previous versions of uploaded avatars accumulate in attachments/ver003/nonspaced/.. and are possibly unreferenced and lost disk space.

How to reset a user's avatar to at least show the default dummy icon again? Deleting a user is not an option, because information entered by the user needs to stay in place for a while. The workflow needs to be an "anonymization" of the user at first.

[Davin Studer]

I created a utility to allow administrators to upload a picture to a user's profile. Check out the link below for the bitbucket repository.

Instructions

https://bitbucket.org/fredclown/confluence-profile-photo-uploader

Binary Download

https://bitbucket.org/fredclown/confluence-profile-photo-uploader/downloads/ConfluenceProfilePhotos%20v1.3.0.0.zip

[Stephan Eisvogel]

Thanks, and I am aware of this tool, but that was not what was asked.

[Davin Studer]

Could you not use it to upload a different user pic?

[Davin Studer]

A blank one perhaps.

[Stig G]

The bitbucket link is not working. Is it possible to get the script anywhere else? That would help me a lot.