February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
9h 59m
English
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What if you want to delete the file on the IPFS? Let's say you accidentally add a nude picture of yourself using the ipfs add command:
$ ipfs add nude_picture.jpgadded QmWgMcTdPY9Rv7SCBusK1gWBRJcBi2MxNkC1yC6uvLYPwK nude_picture.jpg 2.64 MiB / 2.64 MiB [==================================================] 100.00%
How do you remove your nude picture? There is no such thing as ipfs rm QmPCqvJHUs517pdcFNZ7EJMKcjEtbUBUDYxZcwsSijRtBx because this command does not make any sense. What is it supposed to do? Tell every node that holds your nude picture to delete the picture? That would defeat the noble purpose of IPFS. What you can do is remove the picture on your IPFS local storage. The term for removing the local file in IPFS is called