Deleting Files
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To delete any files or uploads from your WordPress.com blog’s Media Library, start the process by navigating to Media -> Library in your blog’s dashboard:
Next, using your mouse, hover over any of the image files that you wish to remove from your library. You will notice that a group of options appear directly under the image title – Edit | Delete |View.
Click on the Delete option to remove the image. You will receive a confirmation prompt. Click OK to confirm the image’s deletion.
Done! Please note that once any media files and uploads have been removed from your blog, there is no way to recover them. You would need to upload them again to your blog. So please only delete files if you are certain that you would like to have them removed entirely from your blog’s media library.
Bulk Deletion
There is an easier way to remove multiple images from your WordPress.com blog’s media library.
To do this, select the checkbox next to each image that you wish to remove.
Once you have selected all images that you wish to delete, refer to the Bulk Actions drop-down menu above the file listing. Choose the Delete option from the menu and click the Apply button.
You will receive a confirmation prompt. Click OK to confirm the image deletions.
To delete all images in view from any pages of your Media Library, you can select the primary check box and choose Delete from the Bulk Actions drop-down, as described above.
Notes:
- The amount of free space in your blog may not change for a few minutes, so please be patient.
- The amount of space freed may not drop until 500kb of images has been deleted. (1% of the 50mb is 500kb)
- Images that have been cached by search engines cannot be affected by us. Contacting Support about this cannot get the image removed.
