How do you delete a single Media item?

[mattpramschufer]

How do I delete a single media item from it's ID? Right now I have

Media::where('id', $request->get('document_id'))->delete();

Which deletes the DB record, but it does NOT delete the files.

Any suggestions would be helpful, I looked all through the docs and didn't see anywhere it referenced deleting of single item.

[catalinux]

You can add a listener for the delete event of that model

[mattpramschufer]

So there is no built in way to delete a single media item and file from an ID then?

[miclf]

EDIT:
The package uses an observer on the Eloquent model. This is where the deletion of files take place.

My guess is that, in order for this to work, you need to call delete() directly on an instance of your media model, and not on the query builder as you do it in your example. I think you need a real Eloquent instance to call the delete() method on in order for the observer to be triggered.

Does this work?

Media::find($request->get('document_id'))->delete();

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Original reply:
In my controller, I call

Media::find($request->input('photo'))->delete();

to delete a media from its ID.

Otherwise, I see that the InteractsWithMedia trait contains these two methods:

/**
 * Delete the associated media with the given id.
 * You may also pass a media object.
 *
 * @param int|\Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media $mediaId
 *
 * @throws \Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Exceptions\MediaCannotBeDeleted
 */
public function deleteMedia($mediaId): void
{
    // ...
}

public function deletePreservingMedia(): bool
{
    // ...
}