---
title: "Uploads in Profile Changes with Admin Confirmation"
manual: "Femanager"
version: "14.1"
permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/in2code/femanager:pendinguploads@14.1"
source: "Features/PendingUploads/Index.rst"
rendered: "2026-11-12T07:32:49+00:00"
---

# Uploads in Profile Changes with Admin Confirmation {#pendinguploads}

## Basics {#basics}

If a profile change needs the confirmation of an administrator (`plugin.tx_femanager.settings.edit.confirmByAdmin`),
an uploaded file - e.g. the profile image - is not assigned to the user right away. It is stored in the folder
`_pending/` below the configured upload folder (`plugin.tx_femanager.settings.misc.uploadFolder`, default
`1:users/`) and listed in the change request:

```json
{"image": {"old": [12], "new": 345, "upload": true}}
```

`old` holds the uids of the current file references of the field, `new` the uid of the pending file. The mail to
the administrator shows both images.

What happens with the pending file:

-   **Confirm**: the file is moved to the upload folder and replaces the current file of the field. A previous file is
    deleted, as long as no other record refers to it.
-   **Refuse** and **Silent Refuse**: the file is deleted.
-   **New change request** of the same user: it replaces the pending one, so the file of the previous request is
    deleted.

Only files located in a `_pending/` folder are moved or deleted, whatever uid a change request carries.

Note: files in `_pending/` are publicly reachable like every file in a public storage, as long as somebody knows
the file name.

## Cleanup {#cleanup}

A change request nobody decides on keeps its file. Uploads no pending change request refers to any more can be
removed with a command, e.g. as a scheduler task:

```bash
vendor/bin/typo3 femanager:cleanup-pending-uploads --dry-run
vendor/bin/typo3 femanager:cleanup-pending-uploads --older-than-hours=24
```

`--older-than-hours` (default `24`) keeps young files, so an upload of a request that is just being submitted is
not removed.