Where to find the 'permanently delete' function?

[wangx1ng]

Enable setting to allow admins to permanently delete data

As of 2.8.0.beta7: Security Release, Fast Edits, Topic Bookmarks, and more there is a hidden site setting to allow admins to permanently delete data. To enable it, you’d set the SiteSetting at the Rails console like this: cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c SiteSetting.can_permanently_delete=true exit exit This change takes effect immediately. No further action is necessary. Another way to accomplish this would be to add it to app.yml in the env: section. To do that you would add i…

Hello Jammy, when will this feature be available? Since it’s already written in the doc here, shouldn’t it be available already?

I’m using 3.1.0.beta5 and tried both ways (executing SiteSetting.can_permanently_delete=true through rails console and set DISCOURSE_CAN_PERMANENTLY_DELETE: true in app.yml +rebuild app), none of them worked. Still can’t find anything like permanently delete in the topic options menu.

[JammyDodger]

Hello and welcome @wangx1ng

If you’ve set it to true then you should be able to find it in the post wrench menu of a deleted post:

And in the edit history on hidden revisions for the revisions version: (this one is still quite new)

And there’s no need to rebuild when changing settings in the rails console, they’ll just toggle on/off by command without anything extra.

[wangx1ng]

@JammyDodger Ahh found it! Needed to click the red three dots to show the red wrench, thanks for your demonstration.