Changing Template doesn't delete images

[Soma]

When I change template of a page with images (in this case of home in default install) and the new template has no images field, the images resist in the assets folder. Is something on my local server or is this unintended behaviour?

Since image are still there and when I change template back with images field, they also aren't reinserted, which means they're not in database. So they're lost in nowhere.

[Joss]

I would guess that since you are not doing a specific action of removing the images field, then there is no command to delete the actual files.

[Soma]

But it highlights the images field and ask to really change template then deletes entries in db but physical images stay.

[ryan]

I think this happens because the code that removes the fields from templates doesn't know anything about specific fieldtypes. In that respect, it's different than a delete action. I'll think on this some more and see if there's an alternate way.