FileSystemHandle.remove() method

Category: File APIs
Type: No developer-visible change
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 110)
Intent stage: Dev trials

Summary

A "remove self" method for a FileSystemHandle. Currently, it is not possible to remove a file or directory given its handle. You must obtain the handle of the parent directory and call FileSystemDirectoryHandle.removeEntry(). This method enables the common use case where you obtain a file handle from showSaveFilePicker(), but then decide you don't want to save after all, and delete the file.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://github.com/whatwg/fs/pull/9
Firefox: Positive
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive — Also https://crbug.com/1114923
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/1114923

Explainers: https://github.com/whatwg/fs/pull/9 https://github.com/a-sully/fs/pull/1

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