# Having trouble permanently deleting a post?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/401981
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** permanently-delete
**Created:** [May 1, 2026, 12:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/401981 "2026-05-01T00:48:58Z")
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### Author: ![bird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bird/32/552706_2.png) [@bird](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bird)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2026, 12:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/401981/1 "2026-05-01T00:48:58Z")

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Excuse me, experts. I’m getting a prompt when trying to permanently delete a post:

```plaintext
This topic still has 0 posts that need to be permanently deleted before the topic itself can be permanently deleted.

```

How can I resolve this?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/6/7/2675f6b933eab4252ae9c43e4582624d428569b7.png)

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