howto-manually-remove-assets.html.md

owner_slack	title	section	layout	parent	last_reviewed_on	review_in
#2ndline	Remove an asset	Assets	manual_layout	/manual.html	2017-09-04	6 months

If you need to remove an asset manually from assets.publishing.sevice.gov.uk, follow these steps:

1. ssh asset-master-1.production
2. sudo find / -name some-asset.pdf
3. sudo rm /mnt/uploads/asset-manager/assets/.../some-asset.pdf
4. ssh backend-1.production
5. govuk_app_console asset-manager
6. asset = Asset.find("asset-id-from-url") (e.g. 57a9c52b40f0b608a700000a)
7. Check the asset is what you think it is and delete: asset.destroy
8. Navigate to your local fabric-scripts directory
9. fab production cdn.purge_all:'/media/.../some-asset.pdf
10. Check that the asset responds with a 404

* Note: You might need to look at the timestamps or other information to figure out which records to delete if two assets share the same filename.