AFAIK Mattermost stores files (images,…) on disk & not inside the database. Purging just the files doesn’t make any sense for me. In this case the messages should be purged, too.
Hi,
There are different use cases…
Some make textual messages with some images, and it could be great to keep text available for full-text search.
Another use case it to put only image in message, that make evidence to remove message with file(s).