Deleting a project takes it off UNI: it disappears from your profile, from search and from every public page, and any link to it stops working. It is not scrubbed from our database, so if you delete something by mistake, write to support and ask, and say roughly when you did it. Do that sooner rather than later.
There is still no restore button you can press yourself, and no bin to look in, so treat Delete as final when you press it. The difference is that the project can now be brought back by a person, where before it could not.
When it does delete, it is gone. There is no bin, no archive and no restore button anywhere on UNI, and no one on the team can bring it back for you. The confirmation box that reads "This action cannot be undone" is exact, so treat Delete as final on the projects where it works.
Delete takes the whole project, not just the page
Deleting is one action that removes everything the project holds:
- Every version. Version history is stored with the project, so deleting the project deletes the history with it. There is no earlier version left to go back to.
- The published page and its web address. The address returns a not-found page, so every link and search result pointing at it now leads nowhere. Republishing the same work later gives you a new address, not the old one. See Your project web address changes when you rename it.
- Everything the work collected. Comments, likes, ratings, followers, bookmarks and its view count go with it.
- The task board and the project's Resources folder, including files your team uploaded there.
What survives is your uploads. Images, videos, PDFs and embeds stay in your media library, so you can start again from the same files. What you cannot get back is the project: its text, its arrangement, its history, its address and everything readers left on it.
Deleting is not how you undo an edit
If what you want is the project as it stood before your last round of changes, that is version history, not delete. Open the project in the editor and select Version history. Restoring an earlier version of a project explains what a restore replaces and what it leaves alone.
Deleting is not how you take work offline
If the project was published too early, or you want it out of public view for a while, ask support to make it private. A private project keeps its versions, its address and everything on it, and is visible only to its team. There is no privacy switch in the interface today, so this is a request rather than something you can do yourself, and the same is true of making it public again.
Do not delete a project you have entered into a competition
The entry and the project are separate records. Deleting the project leaves the entry sitting on the competition with nothing attached to it, so the jury has nothing to read, and deleting returns no part of your registration fee. If you want an entry taken out of a competition, write to the team and leave the project in place until you hear back.
Before you confirm
- Check whether the project is entered in any competition.
- If you only want it out of sight, make it private.
- If you only want an earlier version back, use Version history.
If you have already deleted a project and want it back, ask support before rebuilding it. Projects deleted from today onward are recoverable by the team; ones removed before that may not be.