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Can no longer delete more than one folder at a time.
It's been a couple months now that SharePoint is no longer allowing me to select more than one folder to delete at once. I get an error that reads: "You have to delete all the items in this folder before you can delete the folder."
I often have to delete dozens or more folders at a time so having to add something so gut wrenchingly time consuming to my daily tasks list that should take all of two seconds is just ðŸ˜
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Do you know if a Retention Policy has been applied to the Site or Library here? If a policy is in place, it will block the deletion of non-empty folders. You can confirm this if there is a Preservation Hold Library on the Site.
Hello Anthony-123
i have checked this in my environment (target release) and i can delete folders with sub-folders and documents in there, it works fine. Maybe it's a temporary issue.
Or have you library settings like check-out/in active?
Best, Dave
Thanks for checking, Dave. I'm not sure what version of SharePoint we have or how to check that. It's been an issue for months so it doesn't feel temporary. If I go into the folder, I can delete each of the subfolders individually so I don't think this is related to check-out.
Incidentally, I love that this forum allows users to reply to a comment. Coming from the debacle over at community.powerplatform.com this is a pleasant joy.
