# How to delete a part of an archived forum .odt file

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**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-a-part-of-an-archived-forum-odt-file/111466 "2019-03-13T12:20:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-a-part-of-an-archived-forum-odt-file/111466/3 "2019-03-13T14:23:27Z")

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> [@David\_Chong](#):
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> After several years the message with my personal informations got archived (i guess it’s a function of discourse) in a .odt file.

Nope, Discourse doesn’t have such feature.

They either made a plugin to do that or someone manually copy-pasted your post into an .odt file and uploaded it there.

> [@David\_Chong](#):
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> So doy ou guys have any good ideas how they could either delete completely this .odt archive file or edit it with discourse without damaging anything?

If they delete all the posts that link to that file, the fille will automatically be removed.

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