Delete a workspace or a folder

Before deleting a workspace or a folder, keep these in mind:

• Only the Owner can delete the workspace.
• The Owner or anyone with Admin-level permissions to the parent workspace can delete a folder.
• Deleting a workspace or folder will also remove all items within it. Sheets, templates, reports, and dashboards will be transferred to the Owner's deleted items section, where they can be recovered.
• When deleted, workspaces and folders cannot be recovered. Instead, you'll need to rebuild them.

Delete a workspace

Only the person who created the workspace can delete it.

To delete a workspace, follow these steps:

1. Go to Home > All workspaces
2. Find your workspace and open it.
3. Go to the three-dot menu at the top of the left panel and select Delete workspace.

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Delete a workspace from Browse

1. From the Browse menu, go to the workspace you want to remove.
2. Right-click over the workspace name in the left panel, and select Delete…

Learn more about how to delete a workspace in the Create or delete a workspace article. 

Consider the following:

• If you're an Admin on the workspace, you can delete all the items within it, remove everyone - including yourself - from sharing, or get Owner permissions to delete the workspace. 
• If you delete an item and the workspace it lived in, the system recreates the workspace if the item’s Owner undeletes it. 

Delete a folder

Delete a folder from Browse

1. From the Browse menu, go to the workspace containing the folder you want to remove.
2. Right-click the folder, and select Delete…

You can delete multiple folders by checking the boxes next to each one in your workspace, then selecting the delete symbol at the top or right-clicking and choosing Delete.

Delete a folder from Home

1. Go to Home > All workspaces.
2. Open your workspace.
3. Go to the three-dot menu next to your folder’s name and select Delete.