In an attempt to fix this, I'm trying to hook an event up to the Trashed event that'll rename the file to something like "blah.jpg-deleted" so that it'll 404 if anyone accesses it with an old link.

However, I can't figure out how to get the path to the file. MediaService.Trashed provides a MoveEventArgs<IMedia> called e and I've tried variations of:

foreach (var item in e.MoveInfoCollection)
{
  var path = Server.MapPath(item.Entity.Path);
}

However, this doesn't work as Path contains the Umbraco path (eg. -1,-21,1234) and not the actual file path. How do I get the file path?

Can we just get rid of the recycle bin? Or have a config option that lets us bypass it? I don't understand why it's there in the first place.

Just write an event handler that extends MediaService.Trashed

using System.Web;
using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Core.Events;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Core.Services;

namespace MyUmbraco.Site.EventHandlers
{
    public class MediaEventHandler : ApplicationEventHandler
    {
        protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
        {
            MediaService.Trashed += MediaServiceTrashed;
        }

        private void MediaServiceTrashed(IMediaService sender, MoveEventArgs<IMedia> e)
        {
            foreach (var mediaItem in e.MoveInfoCollection)
            {
                if (mediaItem.Entity != null && mediaItem.Entity.ContentType.Alias == "File")
                {
                    if (mediaItem.Entity.Properties["umbracoFile"] != null)
                    {
                        var mediaItemPath = mediaItem.Entity.Properties["umbracoFile"].Value.ToString();

                        var filePath = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(mediaItemPath);
                        if (System.IO.File.Exists(filePath))
                            System.IO.File.Delete(filePath);

                        sender.Delete(mediaItem.Entity);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

    }
}

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