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[btillman]

Testing again with Vault Professional 2015.... In a new test vault I placed ten (10) simple AutoCAD files into the Project Explorer under a folder called Parts. Fooled around with the Change State for a few minutes and then tried to delete all of them. But I'm presented with dialog window which says "... cannot be deleted due to vault restrictions." So I click on the Details button and click "Ignore restrictions..." but still get "You do not have adequate permissions..." message. My login account on this Vault server has full Admin rights.

I finally figured out that changing the state to Work in Progress allowed me to delete files. But I was doing testing last week and it only let me delete items if I changed the state to "Obsolete". ???

So what I seem to have discovered is that files cannot be deleted unless they are marked "Work in Progress" and Items can only be deleted if they are marked "Obsolete"... ???

[Neil_Cross]

Yaha by default even full admin users are denied delete rights when a file is at a Released state using the default lifecycle definitions.  You can change that through the settings although I wouldn't recommend that unless you're in a test Vault.  

Obviously this is dependent on the lifecycle definition you have, but typically you'll see the setting blocking the delete here:

If a file is on the BASIC RELEASE PROCESS, is RELEASED, DENY DELETE for EVERYONE.