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Last updated: October 27, 2026

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Delete a Project

Removing a Project takes it off the list for everybody who worked in it. Its files can go with it, but they do not have to.

Before you delete

  • Copy anything you want to keep somewhere else. A confirmed deletion cannot be undone.
  • Read the whole confirmation, not only its first line; it lists every folder that will be removed.
  • Expect work in the Project to end: running commands and services stop.

Remove the Project

  1. Open Projects and find the Project's card.
  2. Click the three dots, Actions, and choose Remove project.
  3. Read the folders and the items the dialog lists.
  4. Leave Also delete files unticked to keep the files, or tick it to remove them too.
  5. Click Remove and confirm the scope once more.

To disconnect a computer, use the same dialog from its row in Account, section Computers. The Project and its members go; the files on the computer stay unless you tick the box.

What Also delete files means

Also delete files is unticked by default.

  • Unticked: the Project disappears and the files in its folder stay where they are.
  • Ticked: the listed folder and everything in it is removed, including a folder that existed before the Project was added.
  • A Project with a prepared environment: its disk belongs to the Project and always goes, whatever the box says.
  • A connected computer: only the Project's own working folder on that computer is removed.

What is always kept

  • Your conversations and their history stay, even those about the Project.
  • Protected folders stay: the home folder of the computer, the root of the disk and Chetty's own folders.
  • A folder that another Project also uses stays too, so removing one Project cannot break another.

The Project itself is gone; only the files in those folders remain.

When deletion is blocked

Sometimes the cleanup cannot finish, for example because a connected computer is offline. The Project then stays inactive, marked Deletion blocked, and nothing else happens.

  1. Reconnect the computer or ask your administrator to restore the service.
  2. Open the Project again and click Continue deletion.
  3. Confirm the scope once more, because it may have changed.

A non-administrator account always keeps at least one usable Project, so the last one cannot be removed.