Delete a workspace or a folder

Workspaces are curated selections of sheets, reports, and dashboards that you can share with specific people. Folders are specific sets of items that live within workspaces.

Who can use this?

Plans:

  • Pro
  • Business
  • Enterprise

Permissions:

  • Owner
  • Admin

Find out if this capability is included in Smartsheet Regions or Smartsheet Gov.

Before you begin

  • 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 also removes all items within it. Sheets, templates, reports, and dashboards are transferred to the Owner's deleted items section, where they can be recovered.
  • You can't recover deleted workspaces or folders. Instead, you 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 > Workspaces. Alternatively, find your workspace in either the Recents or Favorites tab. 

At the top of the workspace panel, select the Star icon next to the workspace name to favorite it and find it quickly.

  1. Find your workspace and select it. This opens the workspace panel on the left.
  2. Go to the three-dot menu at the top of the left panel and select Delete workspace.
Delete workspace

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…

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 Trashcan icon at the top or right-clicking and choosing Delete.

Delete a folder from Home

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