Hi there,

I am using RSForms! to manage a simple form that allows a client to upload files and have them emailed to an administrator.

I don't want the files to be kept on the server after the email is sent as it will fill up the client's limited webhosting space. I noticed that a few other forum posts have expressed a similar need but I haven't found a solution on any of them.

In case it helps out anyone else, this is how I solved.

Create a cron job in cPanel (or other webhost) with the following command:


Set this to run to what ever schedule suits you. It will find all files in the uploads folder that are over 5 minutes old and delete them. The 5 minute age-buffer is to avoid the file being deleted while RSForms is still trying to operate on it, and there is a file exclusion for the index.html file that is in the uploads folder. This file is important to prevent people from browsing the contents of the folder I believe. The folder path is correct for my installation of RSForms! but you may need to modify it slightly.

Let me know if this helps anyone.

Hello Mike,

This would not be advised, if the administrator does not receive the email properly, then the attachment would be lost. You could try advising your administrators to simply access the admin panel of your Joomla! installation after the attachment email was confirmed and delete the file manually from the "Manage submissions" tab.

I'm sorry for bumping this after such a long time but this is the only meaningfull post I find if I search via Google "rsforms File Uploads attachments delete". Does the above mean that uploaded files get deleted automatically as well, when submissions are deleted? Or only when "Delete Submissions Older Than xx Days:" is given to the form?

Or are the files never getting deleted unless you do it manually?

Thank you!