Issue with deleting old images in Sanity editor due to locked document

Hey everyone! I am updating an old studio for a client of mine and I need to delete some old images (using the media plugin).. However the sanity editor is not letting me delete the image because it is locked to an old document (document was named

editorialPage

which we no longer use). I went into my terminal and deleted the document manually using

sanity documents delete editoralPage

, but it says the document is not found.. Very odd. When I check the image reference it still says

A document of the unknown type editorialPage

... Any help with this? Ideally it would just be great to delete that document altogether

Hello In order to bulk detele, you will need to use this functionality:
https://www.sanity.io/guides/bulk-deletion-using-sanity-cli Or you could use one of those snippets:
https://www.sanity.io/answers/how-to-delete-all-docs-of-a-specific-doc-type-p1605106695431800 Tell me if you were able to delete

editorialPage

with this approach 🙂

is

editorialPage

the

_id

of the document or the title?

sanity documents delete

expects to receive an

_id

of a document so that may be your issue!
If you don't know the

_id

you can first run

sanity documents query '*[title == 'editorialPage']'

. That should print the

_id

for you to use when you run

sanity documents delete

.

Hey I just tried this.. Seems like it might be the issue. I get the following response back:
Not sure what this is for..

Can you try adding in an API version like this:

sanity documents query --api-version v2021-06-07 '*[title == "editorialPage"]'

Hmm I just tried that and a blank

[]

is the return object lol. Let me attach a photo of whats going on.. BTW this is a major issue, but it would be great to have old, unused photos deleted.

Oh, that does have a document _id then! If that document is no longer in use, you can just pass that _id into your

sanity documents delete

command.

Haha it worked! 🎉 Thanks your're a wizard!

yer a wizard