# Enable setting to allow admins to permanently delete data

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-setting-to-allow-admins-to-permanently-delete-data/206678>\
**Category:** Self-Hosting\
**Tags:** how-to, permanently-delete\
**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-setting-to-allow-admins-to-permanently-delete-data/206678 "2021-10-21T14:50:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bathinda](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bathinda/32/135888_2.png) [@Bathinda](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bathinda)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-setting-to-allow-admins-to-permanently-delete-data/206678/18 "2024-08-16T14:13:22Z")

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“Delete Data” means all the topics, posts, uploads etc, everything will be deleted from our site and it’ll be just an empty new website?

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Or it’d delete ‘Data’ container or something?

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