Background of the issue:
I am trying to delete images permanently on my site hidden link. I deleted them in both my languages in the media library and I even selected the option 'delete translated posts'.
Symptoms:
I can still find the deleted image on the server.
Questions:
How long does it take for the images to be really gone?
While you wait for my colleague to take over the ticket, let me try to help you with the issue quickly.
WPML doesn't create any files on your host, it just duplicates image data in DB, but still uses the default language file, like WP usually does. It is always only 1 file. If you wish to delete the file from your host you will need to delete all other language data and default language file, you can also simply disable WPML plugin and delete images from your media library.
Well disabling WPML to delete some media does not seem like a solution.
I deleted the image for both languages dutch and french.
I do not understand what I am doing wrong.
What other language info do I have to delete for the media?
Hey I did indeed delete them for all languages.
In the images I will show you an example.
I deleted old header images (header2, header3,...), you can see that I searched in the admin on "header" for both NL & FR (2 different screenshots).
But on the other image you can see that the old files are still there. Perhaps those are variants of the file (automatically generated different resolutions), but all should be gone.
