Delete a workspace

Site Administrators or Workspace Owners (including the workspace's creator) can permanently delete a workspace, meaning members will no longer be able to view the workspace or any discussions contained within it. Users also won't be able to access any files they uploaded to the workspace.

As a Site Administrator or Workspace Owner, you can delete a workspace by following these steps:

Go to Your workspaces from the main menu.
Select the workspace you need to delete.
Select the user actions menu in the top-right corner (this will appear as your role, e.g. Owner), then select Delete workspace.
When prompted to confirm, click Delete.

When you delete a workspace this will not happen immediately, but the workspace will instead be flagged for deletion. When the cron next runs, an ad hoc task will be executed to delete the workspace.

Once a workspace is flagged for deletion it will not be visible to the user, except for in the recipient list of shared resources.

Deleting a workspace will result in permanent loss of data, so this decision should not be taken lightly.

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