Cannot figure out why the image is not deleting

padawan
padawan Member Posts: 2 āœ­
in Developer APIs

I'm trying to delete an image using the Nodejs SDK.

const result = await cloudinary.uploader.destroy(profile.id);

But it returns a result of 'not_found' even though I'm specifying the correct public id

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As you can see in the pics above, the id of the resource in the media lib matches what is in the console (profile.id = 65aaba8df62ba670bac1af73)

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  • Cloudinary Team
    Cloudinary Team Administrator, Cloudinary Staff Posts: 170 admin
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    Hi there,

    Thanks for reaching out.

    In your screenshot, I see that the asset is located in a folder profile_pictures. The folder is part of the public id, so you will need to include the folder when you pass the public id to the destroy method.

    As an example, if you had an asset with the filename of 'cuteKitten' and that was located in a folder 'cuteAnimals', the entire public id would be cuteAnimals/cuteKitten and your destroy call would look like this:

    cloudinary.uploader.destroy("cuteAnimals/cuteKitten").then((result) => console.log(result));

    Can you make that adjustment and give it another try? Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

    Kind regards,

    Tia

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  • padawan
    padawan Member Posts: 2 āœ­
    https://community.cloudinary.com/discussion/comment/978#Comment_978

    Yeah this worked, thanks

  • Cloudinary Team
    Cloudinary Team Administrator, Cloudinary Staff Posts: 170 admin

    Hi there,

    Thanks for the update. I'm glad you got it working šŸ˜Š

    Kind regards,

    Tia

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