# Clear, empty, delete database for another import (development)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/clear-empty-delete-database-for-another-import-development/66498>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clear-empty-delete-database-for-another-import-development/66498 "2017-07-20T10:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silvanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/silvanus/32/62831_2.png) [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clear-empty-delete-database-for-another-import-development/66498/1 "2017-07-20T10:20:31Z")

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So, I managed to import my age old forum into Discourse, and I madea Discourse backup of it. Later I will put it down in a production environment and make the static archive. Right now I’m on a developoment build. But now I’m running into a problem: I would like to clear out the database and insert my second forum into Discourse, so that the old forum is removed.

I tried a few threads below, but they didn’t give me the answer I need:

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-clear-out-my-database/23813/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-clear-out-my-database/23813/)

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-the-whole-database/23602/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-the-whole-database/23602/)

I even tried `cd /;sudo find|grep shared/standalone`, but didn’t find the thing to be removed.

Please advise! 🙂

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