Delete attachment

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Delete an attachment from a user calendar event, mail message, or group post.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Depending on the resource (event, message, outlookTask, or post) that the attachment is attached to and the permission type (delegated or application) requested, the permission specified in the following table is the least privileged required to call this API. To learn more, including taking caution before choosing more privileged permissions, search for the following permissions in Permissions.

Supported resource	Delegated (work or school account)	Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Application
event	Calendars.ReadWrite	Calendars.ReadWrite	Calendars.ReadWrite
message	Mail.ReadWrite	Mail.ReadWrite	Mail.ReadWrite
post	Group.ReadWrite.All	Not supported	Not supported

HTTP request

Attachments for an event in the user's default calendar.

DELETE /me/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

DELETE /me/calendar/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendar/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for an event in the specified calendar that belongs to the user.

DELETE /me/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for an event in a calendar that belongs to the user's default calendarGroup.

DELETE /me/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for an event in a calendar that belongs to a user's calendarGroup.

DELETE /me/calendarGroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendarGroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for a message in a user's mailbox.

DELETE /me/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for a message contained in a top level mailFolder in a user's mailbox.

DELETE /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for a message contained in a child folder of a mailFolder in a user's mailbox. The following example shows one level of nesting, but a message can be located in a child of a child and so on.

DELETE /me/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/.../messages/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}

Attachments for a post in a thread thta belongs to a conversation of a group.

DELETE /groups/{id}/threads/{id}/posts/{id}/attachments/{id}
DELETE /groups/{id}/conversations/{id}/threads/{id}/posts/{id}/attachments/{id}

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request to delete an attachment on an event.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/events/{id}/attachments/{id}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Me.Events["{event-id}"].Attachments["{attachment-id}"].DeleteAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc users events attachments delete --user-id {user-id} --event-id {event-id} --attachment-id {attachment-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Me().Events().ByEventId("event-id").Attachments().ByAttachmentId("attachment-id").Delete(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

graphClient.me().events().byEventId("{event-id}").attachments().byAttachmentId("{attachment-id}").delete();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

await client.api('/me/events/{id}/attachments/{id}')
	.delete();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$graphServiceClient->me()->events()->byEventId('event-id')->attachments()->byAttachmentId('attachment-id')->delete()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Calendar

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Remove-MgUserEventAttachment -UserId $userId -EventId $eventId -AttachmentId $attachmentId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.me.events.by_event_id('event-id').attachments.by_attachment_id('attachment-id').delete()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content