How to delete a product image if you got the message «The image cannot be removed as it has been assigned to the other image role»

dmitry_fedyuk · January 25, 2016, 11:22pm

See the code:

magento/magento2/blob/720667e/app/code/Magento/Catalog/Model/Product/Gallery/UpdateHandler.php#L20-L33


$picturesInOtherStores = [];


foreach ($this->resourceModel->getProductImages($product, $this->extractStoreIds($product)) as $image) {
    $picturesInOtherStores[$image['filepath']] = true;
}


foreach ($images as &$image) {
    if (!empty($image['removed'])) {
        if (!empty($image['value_id']) && !isset($picturesInOtherStores[$image['file']])) {
            $recordsToDelete[] = $image['value_id'];
            $filesToDelete[] = ltrim($image['file'], '/');
        }
    }
}

As you can see, an image will not be deleted if Magento 2 considers that the image is used by another store.
So you should switch to the global scope before deleting the problem image:

dmitry_fedyuk · January 25, 2016, 11:27pm