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File Manager

Every image, audio file, PDF, and other file you upload is stored with your graph. The File Manager shows them all in one place.
Open it from Settings → Attachments, or run File manager from the Command Palette.
See Upload Files for how files get into your graph in the first place.

Browse every upload in a grid, newest first.
Download a file. This works in encrypted graphs too.
Delete a file permanently. Before you confirm, Roam shows you where the file is used: every block and PDF page that references it, or that it appears nowhere in your graph.

Export attachments saves your graph's files to a folder, along with a manifest file.
Import attachments loads them into another graph from that folder, so when you restore a graph from a backup, its files can come along.
Both live in Settings → Data & Backups, and as Command Palette commands.
Exporting to the same folder again skips files that are already there, so you won't get duplicates.
Importing and exporting need the desktop app, Chrome, or Edge (they use folder access other browsers don't support).

Deleting a block doesn't delete the file that was uploaded in it. The upload stays in your graph's storage.
- There's no way to search for those leftover files yet. But when you delete a file, the reference check tells you whether anything still shows it before you confirm.
Deleting is permanent. Any block that still embedded the file will no longer be able to show it.