# Bookmarks can’t be deleted
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** bookmarks
**Created:** [September 19, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201 "2024-09-19T07:24:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/1 "2024-09-19T07:24:23Z")
Bookmarks act weirdly.
If I open a bookmarked topic I see this
instead of this:
I don’t care so much about what I see, but I can’t delete bookmarks anymore. Not even using the route “More options” and the trash bin there.
But there is more…
If I bookmark a fresh one, it acts normally and I can even delete it, and it stays deleted.
My finger slipped yesterday on my forum and I accidentally bookmarked a topic. A while ago I tried to delete that bookmark, and no luck. With new ones it works, so it looks like after time X its status or something changes.
If I change the used theme it looks like that topic isn’t bookmarked anymore. But if I leave and return, that small bugger is bookmarked again.
It happens here too and with [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) in my forum. iPad and iPhone with DiscourseHub, PWA, and Safari.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/2 "2024-09-19T07:33:04Z")
> [@Jagster](#):
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> If I open a bookmarked topic I see this
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Before you pressed the button, was it a ‘bookmark’ or an ‘edit bookmark’ button?
The post you have already bookmarked, is it the first post or another one?
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/3 "2024-09-19T07:46:36Z")
Just a plain grey bookmark button. Like with this bookmarked one:
And now this starts to get interesting.
I have those two bookmarks now.
So Discourse isn’t recognizing those old ones as bookmarks. When I try that grey bookmark button, it makes a new bookmark and both change their button to ”edit bookmark”. And after that, it lets me delete, but I have to delete both.
Will those stay deleted and not change to zombies… will see.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/4 "2024-09-19T08:17:34Z")
Did you bookmark a specific post or the topic?
You can bookmark the topic with the button at the bottom. But you can also bookmark specific posts within the topic with the buttons below each post. And you can only remove the bookmark at the place where you added it because they are all different bookmarks.
It is a bit confusing when you bookmark the topic and the first post, I always think of it as one bookmarks `forum.example.com/t/{topic-title}/{topic-id}` and the other one bookmarks `forum.example.com/t/{topic-title}/{topic-id}/{post-id}`. Even if post-id is 1 those are two different URLs, so 2 different bookmarks.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 8:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/5 "2024-09-19T08:21:40Z")
Good question. I don’t remember with those old bookmarks, but there is really high chance I bookmarked topics, because it is easier. And defenetly that accidentally bookmarking of mine in my forum was topic, not post.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/6 "2024-09-19T11:49:07Z")
I’m a bit confused.
> [@Jagster](#):
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> I see this
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Right. That’s after you bookmark the topic.
> [@Jagster](#):
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> instead of this:
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Isn’t that expected behaviour after clicking the ‘Edit bookmark’ button?
> [@Jagster](#):
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> I don’t care so much about what I see, but I can’t delete bookmarks anymore. Not even using the route “More options” and the trash bin there.
That ‘Delete’ button in the second picture doesn’t work?
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/7 "2024-09-19T12:11:11Z")
That first image was a bookmarked topic opened from list of bookmarks. But it acts as it wouldn’t ever bookmarked.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/8 "2024-09-19T12:15:00Z")
> [@NateDhaliwal](#):
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> That ‘Delete’ button in the second picture doesn’t work?
It works for the second bookmark that would be created if I even look it 😏 but not the original one.
Mainly the issue is nowadays Discourse can show my old bookmarks, but doesn’t understand that all of my bookmarks are bookmarks.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/9 "2024-09-19T18:35:12Z")
I re-categorize this to #Support. Just because then I got that solved mark here.
I went through all my bookmarks and it was a matter of topic vs post indeed.
So there isn’t anything broken, no bugs whatsoever, and I’m really sorry about all that hassle 🫣
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-can-t-be-deleted/327201/10 "2024-10-19T18:35:59Z")
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