Delete file instances

You can use the full delete operation to completely remove all instances of a file from the Domino File System. A full delete finds all instances of the file’s contents across all revisions of all projects, erases the contents, and replaces them with a message indicating that the file was subject to a full delete. This affects all files that have contents that are identical to the target file, even if they have different filenames. It does not affect files with the same filename if they have different contents.

Perform a full delete

  1. In the Project that the file belongs to, click Code.

  2. Click the three dots at the end of the row and click Full Delete.

    OR

    Click the file to delete, and then click Full Delete.

    Note
    		 You can perform a full delete on one file at a time.

  3. When prompted, enter a commit message and then confirm the full delete. The full delete removes all instances of the file contents from the Domino File System.

    Note

    • This operation does not alter the revision history of the affected projects. All commits that contained the file contents continue to exist, but when viewing the file contents in the project, you only see the full delete message.

    • A limitation of full delete is if there are published Domino endpoints from project revisions containing files now fully deleted. Those Domino endpoint images still contain that file. You cannot permanently purge that image from Domino. Contact support@dominodatalab.com if you have questions about such files.

Browse to a file and click delete

In rare cases, you may need to purge a file completely from the Blob Store. For example, if you discover that a file contains data that must be deleted for compliance reasons.

To remove a file so that it cannot be restored, browse to the file and click Full Delete.

You’ll be prompted for a commit message and warned about the implications of this.

Important
 A full delete will irrevocably remove all files that match the exact contents of the file you are deleting. For example, if multiple projects all contain a data.txt file with the exact same contents, full-deleting it in one Project will full-delete it everywhere.

After a full-delete operation, someone who tries to access the deleted file in the future will instead find a file with the message you entered in the “commit message” prompt.