Delete a stream

The behavior of deleting a stream is different for an administrator than it is for a user who is not an administrator.

Delete a stream

1. In the Streams tab or Stream Graph tab, right-click the stream you want to delete and select Delete Stream <stream name>.
   1. If the stream is associated with an active workspace, the Associated Workspaces dialog notifies you that the stream cannot be deleted. However, if you right-click the workspace name, you can delete that workspace if you own the workspace or are the administrator.
   2. Delete all of the associated workspaces.
      

2. If you are the stream owner (the user who created the stream), the stream has files branched to it, and the stream type is release or development, the Delete files in the stream dialog allows you to decide whether to permanently delete stream files.

3. The Delete stream dialog offers two options:
   • Delete the stream only

   • Permanently delete the stream its history
     

     Warning

     Only an administrator can use the option to "Permanently delete the stream and its history" because the removal cannot be recovered.

   Choose an option and click Delete stream.

Delete task streams

Task streams are designed to be temporary and should be unloaded or deleted as soon as the changes have been integrated. With task streams, the unmodified files automatically go away when the stream spec does. For more information, see Task streams and Delete and unload task streams.