{"id":16418,"date":"2025-09-09T14:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/?page_id=16418"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:51:42","slug":"onedrive-deleting-files-or-folders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/?page_id=16418","title":{"rendered":"OneDrive – Deleting files or folders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/span>Deleting a file <\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Select the file or folder<\/strong> to delete by clicking the circle check box<\/strong> to the left – you can select more than one by holding the ctrl button<\/strong> down on your keyboard and selecting more than one file\/ folder<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Select Delete<\/strong> on the bar at the top of the page<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Note<\/strong> – You can also access the Delete<\/strong> option by clicking on the More options three button<\/strong> to the right of the file or folder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    <\/span>Deleting a folder<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    1. To delete a folder and not just the files in it you will need to move to the level above<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Select Folder<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Select Delete<\/strong> on the bar at the top of the page<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        Tip<\/strong> – make sure you’ve checked there are no files you want to keep before deleting the folder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Deleting a file Note – You can also access the Delete option by clicking on the More options three button to the right of the file or folder Deleting a folder Tip – make sure you’ve checked there are no files you want to keep before deleting the folder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15720,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16418","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-skills"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16418"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16796,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16418\/revisions\/16796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}