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Comment: For MODAC-298: Updated the criteria.

The criteria for deleting a file depends on the type of file:

File TypeCriteria
Data file

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hiddentrue

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If the following criteria are

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all true, you can delete a data file:

  • You

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  • have permission to delete it in one of the following ways:
    • Via ownership: You created it. 
    • Via group permissions (as described in Managing Edit Permissions) and delete permission. (To request permission to delete data, select About > Contact. For details, refer to Contacting Us.)

  • The parent collection is not public. For information, refer to Sharing Collections with Groups. 

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    hiddentrue

    Guidance in 2020-09-24 meeting is to not mention delay between making an asset non-public and the ability to delete a file in it. It's a unique case, controlled mostly internally. 

  • The data file is less than 90 days old.
Prediction filesIf the following criteria are both true, you can delete prediction files:
  • You own the data. That is, you generated the prediction files. 
  • The prediction files are

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  • less than 90 days old.

To delete a file:

  1. Log in, as described in Logging In. 
  2. Perform a search, as described in Finding Data.
  3. In the search results, click the link for the data set the asset of interest. The Data Set The Asset Details page appears. 
  4. If the asset has subfolders, navigate to the file of interest. (Click each folder to open it.)
  5. If the asset has prediction files that you want to delete, click the Predictions tab.
  6. In the row for the file that you want to delete, click  click the delete file icon. A confirmation message appears.
  7. Click Yes.