as mentioned already on http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?p=110380#110380 and instructed there to post separately. Apologies for not knowing forum form on this.

Can I put in a request for similar ability to depreciate or make private files )add the usual enum() field - and while we are about it, make life simpler by identifying the file type in the table - this would eliminate the need for the $File->is_image() function and resolve a few outstanding TODO's inc/widgets/widgets/_coll_media_index.widget.php in particular the cleaner SQL