[TYPO3-dam] What about not deleting files when DAM records are deleted?

[Francois Suter]

Hi all,

When a DAM record is deleted, the DAM uses a TCEmain hook to delete the 
related file. While this makes some sense to avoid leaving orphaned 
files on the server, it does mitigate the usefulness of the "undelete" 
command. In particular it renders the new Recycler module rather useless 
with regards to the DAM, because there's not much point restoring a DAM 
record if the related file does not exist anymore.

So I was thinking that it might be useful to make the hook call 
configurable. Of course I can just unset the hook registration and the 
magical delete does not happen anymore, but it might be more 
user-friendly if this were configurable.

Opinions? Did I miss something?

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch