TYPO3 Core

I've performed the following test with TYPO3 8.7.9

1) load a file example.png in /fileadmin/Images/
2) create a page and a text with image content element
2.1) edit the text of the element
2.2) add the image example.png in Images tab
2.3) Save and close
3) I've deleted the image example.png (without using TYPO3, directly on the filesystem)
4) edit again the content element

Results¶

1) The relation in "Images" tab is still there, but there is no thumbnail
2) If I click on the "info" button I see the "File is missing!" orange box
3) the content element can be still edited and saved without any error message
4) on frontend, there is a "broken" image but no error.

Should I perform a different test? Or the issue can be considered solved? Thank you.

@Andy I'd say if you manually and willfully destroy your system we can't fix that for you. The tests Riccardo performed are what I consider valid behaviour, as we maybe don't want to delete those references automatically in case the editor just made a mistake and restores the file (or the storage was temporarily offline which might happen in cloud/nfs setups). I'd close this issue tbh.

Andy says he's fine with closing :)