{"id":2048,"date":"2020-03-19T14:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/app\/help\/usermanual\/metashare-help-user-manual-how-to-move-documents-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:53:28","slug":"how-to-delete-documents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/usermanual\/manage-documents\/how-to-delete-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete documents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Documents can easily be deleted from MetaShare by following these instructions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/how-to-select-deselect-documents\/\">Select one or several documents<\/a>\u00a0and click on the ellipsis icon, on the horizontal toolbar, and select the &#8220;Delete&#8221; function:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"350\" class=\"wp-image-11940\" style=\"width: 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-delete-documents_del.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-delete-documents_del.png 1280w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-delete-documents_del-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-delete-documents_del-1024x280.png 1024w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-delete-documents_del-768x210.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><br>From the documents tab in <a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/metashares-start-page\/\">MetaShare&#8217;s start page<\/a>, you can currently only select one document at a time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will be asked if the documents should be moved to the recycle bin.\u00a0If\u00a0you select &#8220;OK&#8221;, the documents will be moved to the recycle bin.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"177\" class=\"wp-image-11942\" style=\"width: 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-delete-documents_del_message.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-delete-documents_del_message.png 353w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-delete-documents_del_message-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><br>Note that the documents are in reality not deleted, they are just moved to the recycle bin, where they easily can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/how-to-restore-deleted-documents\" rel=\" noopener\">restored\u00a0<\/a>or permanently be deleted.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Note<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The\u00a0Delete\u00a0function will only be available in the toolbar if you are a contributor (readers will not be able to\u00a0delete documents).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deleted document will be kept in the recycle bin for maximum 93 days.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents can easily be deleted from MetaShare by following these instructions: Note<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10670,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-2048","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11944,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2048\/revisions\/11944"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}