dylanfranks3 / obsidian-file-cleaner-redux

A plugin for Obsidian to help clean up files in your vault

File Cleaner Redux

File Cleaner Redux is a plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) to help remove unused / empty markdown files and attachments based on a few simple user-defined rules.

Based on https://github.com/Johnson0907/obsidian-file-cleaner

What this plugin does

• Removes Markdown files with a size of 0 bytes.
• Removes user-defined attachment files (e.g: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, svg, pdf)
• Support for cleaning empty files containing only specific frontmatter (Optional) (See: husjon#16)
• Removes empty folders recursively (Optional)
• Folder exclusion / inclusion (Optional)
• Set deletion location
  • Move to system trash
  • Move to Obsidian trash (.trash folder)
  • Permanently delete
• Preview of list of files and folders that will be removed (Optional)
• Run on Startup (Optional)

How to use the plugin

• Click the "File Cleaner" ribbon icon or add a Keybinding for the Clean files command.

Screenshots

Plugins Settings (showing default values)

Preview of deleted files

Hotkeys

Known issue

• Attachments used in Admonition code blocks are not recognized