How can I delete a project

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I uploaded some standard materials  (screws, washers and nuts) to my workspace in a project called Standards.

As I am a newbie I want to start over, because the drawings are not what they were supposed to be.

So I want now to delete the whole Standards project.

How can I do that?

Currently I only have it disabled, but I want to get rid of it completely.

Regards

Florian

[Anonymous]

Same questions here, as the ones I have seen in this topic more often: I like to keep things organized and therefore have the ability to delet projects. not just to hide them and make them live on forever but then out of sight.

this topic is marked as solved but i dont really see how deactivating a project is a solution for a request to be able to delete it.  I wish i was a programmer and could understand why it can be so hard to add a "delete" function.  For me now it is hard to believe that this is a technical issue rather then a policy issue.

[charegb]

We are still working on this. We hope to have Delete Project in this summer and delete of items, versions etc. by Fall. If you follow our release blogs, we put in some enabling infracture in May (WIPDM) and it should allow us to speed up work on data interaction actions going forward.

Thanks,

Bankim

[Anonymous]

I persist : I routinely delete offline projects by

1- searching them with something like File Search Assistant,

2- finding them in

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Autodesk Fusion 360\subfolder

3- and delete them

Easy...

[HughesTooling]

I haven't read through all the posts in this thread so perhaps someone's already suggested this but you could delete all the designs in a project then just rename it instead of creating a new one.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Really?  This is completely and utterly ridiculous. This is a core level piece of functionality.  How was it possible to get this far in your development and not have it?

Complete and utter "fail".

[Anonymous]

Summer is already over. When will we get the functionality to delete projects? You've told us two times "In the next release it will be there". Now what? Next release once again?

[charegb]

Hi @Anonymous

We added support for this at the end of June. We announced it in the A360 whats new but not the Fusion whats new and that is a gap/mistake on our side. We will make sure we do a better job of communicating all the new features in all of our access points in the Fusion whats new.

See here for more details on how to delete archived projects - https://blog.a360.autodesk.com/delete-a-project-and-more/

Thanks,

Bankim

[Anonymous]

I have to archive something to delete it from a web interface? This is so beyond stupid I would love to have been in the meetings that lead to a decision NOT TO INCLUDE A PROJECT DELETE FEATURE into the program. We know you're not all in kindergarten, so obviously there was some intent that isn't being reported to clients. 

This sounds like an aborted attempt to monetize peoples projects via some catch in a future EULA. You can deny it, but it doesn't matter because that's what any web facing rep would be told to do. It is almost more sad if what I'm describing was not Autodesk's original or continuing intention, because it looks like that anyway. Good job.

[charegb]

You are reading way too much into it. A 2 step delete is just a safety feature against accidental deletes of an entire project.

Thanks,

Bankim

[kb9ydn]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I have to archive something to delete it from a web interface? This is so beyond stupid I would love to have been in the meetings that lead to a decision NOT TO INCLUDE A PROJECT DELETE FEATURE into the program. We know you're not all in kindergarten, so obviously there was some intent that isn't being reported to clients. 

This sounds like an aborted attempt to monetize peoples projects via some catch in a future EULA. You can deny it, but it doesn't matter because that's what any web facing rep would be told to do. It is almost more sad if what I'm describing was not Autodesk's original or continuing intention, because it looks like that anyway. Good job.

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Considering that deleting an entire project is irreversible and therefore potentially catastrophic, it seems quite reasonable to require a two step process such as archival and then deletion.  And I don't think it's something that you would need to do very often anyway.

C|

[Anonymous]

I use other cloud services where if you delete a file, folder, etc, it is then "archived" in the clouds "recycle bin", and is restorable for say 30 days or so. This, to me, would be a much easier and prefered way of doing this task.

[Anonymous]

Except that answer makes no sense in context of the delete feature originally not existing. If this was the true intent, a recycle bin or archive style interface in the program, available at launch and not included as an afterthought, and not something hidden away in a web interface that is otherwise unnecessary to use the program, would be more typical. Not to mention a 20 year old concept in computing.

So good to know that Autodesk's official position is that users are not responsible enough to handle their files, and their original solution was to literally not let them. Their followup solution was to hide the feature outside of the program interface.

I don't want a response, btw. There's nothing you could say that would be satisfying that your management would allow you to say. Thanks for trying, though, I know it wasn't your decision.

[Anonymous]

I don't work for Autodesk lol. And I think you misunderstood. I am in no way defending their actions of not having this feature from the beginning. You are right, and it blows my mind. I'm not sure if they way over thought this whole cloud feature or what. They way too deeply implemented it and I'm not sure if I would ever trust them as a company with such control and power over "MY" creations.

[johnson2423]

I want to pipe in on the topic of deleting folders/Projects.  I was P/O'd about it for quite some time until I finally went through recently and found out what the solution is.  It's not a bad solution and I'm not discouraged by it anymore.  So what I understand is that you need to sign into A360 website.  You can't delete it from the fusion360 program.  Not that big a deal.  "Archive" it in F360 program, and then sign into the website and delete it for good.  If a project folder truly was holding douzens or hundreds of models I think it's not unrealistic to have a fail safe for deleting "Project" level folders.  So, on to bigger and better things.

Richard

[christian.mowat]

It's now been 2 years since this feature was requested, one year since it's been "in the hopper" and still nothing. WHERE IS THE DELETE FUNCTIONALITY THAT LITERALLY EVERY PROGRAM NEEDS TO HAVE. 

[Anonymous]

I am really brand new to fusion 360....but I think I just deleted the demo project by first archiving and then deleting.

[Scoox]

The browser aspect of Fusion 360 is about the only thing driving me mad. I often can't delete or rename stuff intuitively like I can in, say, my OS's file explorer.

[Scoox]

Would be nice to be able to delete projects. This limitation may be to do with cloud integration. Fusion 360 would be a lot more user friendly if uses could select which projects live in the cloud and which don't. After all, not every project is a collaboration or needs to be accessible on multiple devices.

For me, I live in China and using Fusion 360 is proving problematic becuse the Chinese government randomly block online services.

[Anonymous]

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deleting projects is not currently supported, there is just disable option for Projects, but you can create folders (for instance right from Save dialog in Fusion) under a projects and these could be deleted(managed) pretty easy on A360 web pages.

If you disable a project you could create a new one with the same name as previuos one."

I'm surprised no one said this yet but WTF?!

[tomo1230]

Hi ! 

You can delete it in the cloud service menu after archiving.

　https://myhub.autodesk360.com

For your reference

thanks,