# How can I delete and start again?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-delete-and-start-again/31493>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 28, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-delete-and-start-again/31493 "2015-07-28T12:50:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-delete-and-start-again/31493/1 "2015-07-28T12:50:38Z")

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I’ve moved to a new server and there was a miss-match in the Discourse versions (old install was saying it was up-to-date, new server install is a different version) and now I just want to delete everything and start from scratch (I have updated Discourse on the old server via git pull and taken a new backup).

I’ve tried removing the `/var/discourse` directory and installing again but all the data is still present.

How do I remove everything and start from scratch again?

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