Title: Delete file after email? Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Delete file after email? * Resolved [deargeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deargeek/) * (@deargeek) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/) * Great plugin, thank you 🙂 * Is there a way the uploaded file(s) could be deleted after them being emailed? * I don’t want to keep copies of the files uploaded on the server. * Thanks! * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [WP CMS Ninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billiardgreg/) * (@billiardgreg) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385184) * I will look into a way to allow that. I want to create a settings page for this add-on to allow zipping control as well. As it is usually saved with the entry in Gravity Forms I figured it was a good idea to leave them there to not mess anything up with that. Only issue with this I see is if the email happens to fail for some reason or not get delivered the attachment would then be lost. What if in the outbound email a link gets created that says delete files from server? * Thread Starter [deargeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deargeek/) * (@deargeek) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385286) * That would be great. * For what I’m using it for, asking the recipient to delete from the server would be a bit too much for their skill level. Equally, we’d rather risk losing the attachment than have a copy left on the server. * I suppose I could set something up in the cron to empty out the folder, but a tickbox would be so much easier 😉 * [jdestree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdestree/) * (@jdestree) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385361) * I am looking for the same feature. * Plugin Author [WP CMS Ninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billiardgreg/) * (@billiardgreg) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385438) * I created a 1.4 version which is in beta but it attempts to delete the files in the gravity forms storage area at the same time as the zip file is deleted. You can look at version 1.4 at [http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/tags/1.4/](http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/tags/1.4/) to which the gf-upload-to-email-attachment.php has the following changes: * ``` function gfuea_clean_zips($confirmation, $form, $entry, $ajax) { $notifications = $form['notifications']; $gfueaFound = false; foreach ($notifications as $notification) { $last5 = substr($notification["name"],-5); $last7 = substr($notification["name"],-7); if($last5 == "GFUEA" || $last7 == "GFUEANZ") { $gfueaFound = true; } } if ($gfueaFound = true) { $upload_root = RGFormsModel::get_upload_root(); $filename = $upload_root . "/uploaded_files".$entry['id'].".zip"; if (is_file($filename)){ unlink($filename); } //delete files from server $fileupload_fields = GFCommon::get_fields_by_type( $form, array( 'fileupload' ) ); foreach( $fileupload_fields as $field ) { $url = $entry[ $field['id'] ]; if ( empty( $url ) ) { continue; } elseif ( $field['multipleFiles'] ) { $uploaded_files = json_decode( stripslashes( $url ), true ); foreach ( $uploaded_files as $uploaded_file ) { $attachment = preg_replace( '|^(.*?)/gravity_forms/|', $upload_root, $uploaded_file ); unlink($attachment); } } else { $attachment = preg_replace( '|^(.*?)/gravity_forms/|', $upload_root, $url ); unlink($attachment); } } //end delete files from server } return $confirmation; } ``` * Please let me know how it works for you and I will be looking into how to modify the notifications options to try to get choices in there. * Plugin Author [WP CMS Ninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billiardgreg/) * (@billiardgreg) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385442) * Anyone happen to have a chance to test out this beta? * [joshuabaer23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuabaer23/) * (@joshuabaer23) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385476) * What a neat idea, but all I can think of is the possible downfalls. I can not let any of my staff permission to delete anything…or Id loose it forever. Seems this would be best as an Admin permissions thing from WP itself. Maybe another plugin. * Plugin Author [WP CMS Ninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billiardgreg/) * (@billiardgreg) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385477) * Yea, that is why it is in beta right now. I didn’t want to release it as a integrated feature yet. But giving people the opportunity to test it if they wanted too. I will want to integrate it with the ability for people to turn it on if they want. * [FGD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativetopia/) * (@creativetopia) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385490) * I gave this a go but the image was not deleted from the server. * Plugin Author [WP CMS Ninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billiardgreg/) * (@billiardgreg) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385491) * Please post what version you installed, also anything in the error_log as to why its unable too? like an unlink problem. * [Jebble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jebble/) * (@jebble) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385495) * I just tested 1.4 on WP 4.3.1 with Gravity Forms 1.9.14 and it does not delete the uploaded file(s) * Plugin Author [WP CMS Ninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billiardgreg/) * (@billiardgreg) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385496) * Is there anything in the error_log file of the testing location? But I guess that this is why this isn’t the released version yet. * [199ah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/199ah/) * (@199ah) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385497) * love this plugin allowing me to receive uploaded files as an email attachment! A recent user’s files were uploaded and I received a notification without the attachment. I did find them in the form entries area however. * When I tried to resend the notification I get this error: * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 62914560 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 43275709 bytes) in /homepages/26/d598859973/htdocs/clickandbuilds/ForSaleByOwnerListings/ wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php on line 2393 * also deleted the files in the wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms directory but I still get this error message * [199ah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/199ah/) * (@199ah) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385498) * is that beta working- I don’t have much experience (please be patient!)but will test it out- where exactly does the code go? * where do the uploaded files reside in wp directory? In the mean time I can manually delete theme once downloaded. * Plugin Author [WP CMS Ninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billiardgreg/) * (@billiardgreg) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385499) * If you use the above code it will delete the file after attempting to attach it to the email. This is currently a beta and if you use the one in the plugin repository it will not delete the files and should be attached with the form in gravity forms. That error message has to do with the 64mb of memory. What size file are you trying to attach? * [graphems](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphems/) * (@graphems) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/#post-6385511) * You can also simply delete the entry, which delete the files at the same time, like this: * ``` add_action( 'gform_after_submission_3', 'remove_form_entry', 100, 2 ); function remove_form_entry( $entry, $form ) { GFAPI::delete_entry( $entry['id'] ); } ``` * where gform_after_submission_3 refers to the form id Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Delete file after email?’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/gf-upload-to-email-attachment.svg) * [GF Upload to Email Attachment](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gf-upload-to-email-attachment/reviews/) * 20 replies * 9 participants * Last reply from: [WP CMS Ninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billiardgreg/) * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-file-after-email/page/2/#post-6385520) * Status: resolved