[4.x]: Restore button is missing from Asset index

[Mosnar]

What happened?

Description

The asset restore button is not present on the asset element index - only the Permanently Delete button is shown. This is true regardless of whether the original file was kept or discarded.

Steps to reproduce

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Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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Craft CMS version

4.2.1.1 Pro

PHP version

8.0

Operating system and version

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Database type and version

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Image driver and version

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Installed plugins and versions

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[brandonkelly]

This is true regardless of whether the original file was kept or discarded.

There’s no option to keep the files when deleting assets, though. Which is why there’s no “Restore” button – there’s never going to be a file to restore.

[Mosnar]

This is true regardless of whether the original file was kept or discarded.

There’s no option to keep the files when deleting assets, though. Which is why there’s no “Restore” button – there’s never going to be a file to restore.

@brandonkelly there is if you use it programmatically:

cms/src/elements/Asset.php

Lines 699 to 704 in c659d09

	/**
	* @var bool Whether the associated file should be preserved if the asset record is deleted.
	* @see beforeDelete()
	* @see afterDelete()
	*/
	public bool $keepFileOnDelete = false;

For context, I was looking at making adjustments to the S3 plugin to make use of S3's version history, which allows files to be marked as deleted without permanently deleting them, thus allowing me to implement a "restore" function.

[brandonkelly]

Ah good point.

[brandonkelly]

Made it possible to restore soft-deleted assets in Craft 4.3, provided they were programmatically deleted with $keepFile == true.