Deleting a file from GridFS

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I'm reading GridFS's docs and I'm not sure I'm understanding it. It says right here https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/1.4/examples/gridfs.js#L75 that I should delete a file using it's name. But that's just both insane and stupid. Two files with the same name can coexist perfectly inside the same collection by having different _id. There should be a way to delete files by their _id instead of by their name, but I can't find it.

My question is: has anybody delete files from GridFS using ids instead of names? How?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '13 at 14:34

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I've never used Node.JS but if you want to remove file using _id you should use delete and as far as I can tell it is implemented in Node.JS driver: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/1.4/lib/mongodb/gridfs/grid.js#L95

answered Oct 03 '13 at 14:34

zero323

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I tried that but it says there is no method ```delete```, and I can't see it on the docs page: http://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/api-generated/gridstore.html – alexandernst Oct 03 '13 at 14:38
Maybe this http://blog.nodeknockout.com/post/35215400231/a-primer-for-gridfs-using-the-mongo-db-driver will be helpful. – zero323 Oct 03 '13 at 18:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 08:27

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I found what I was looking for: http://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/api-generated/grid.html#delete

Wasn't looking in the right place.

@zero323 you were right :)

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 18 '17 at 17:40

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The GridFSBucket API on the mongo nodejs driver defines a delete method which accepts an ID parameter.

answered Nov 18 '17 at 17:40

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Deleting a file from GridFS

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