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Copper Contributor

Jul 03, 2020

"The label that's applied to this item prevents it from being edited or deleted"

I have a modern site that's using several lists for basic data entry, nothing particularly complex. There's about 20 lists which all derive from the same list template, so they're all identical in te...

Bronze Contributor

Jul 03, 2020

Toby958

Have you tracked down those particular items that have haven't been deleted, I have only ever seen the message when a label is applied. I would suspect a user has applied the label to some items by mistake or because they could.

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Divya_Ramesh
Copper Contributor
Aug 20, 2020
Andrew Hodges

I was able to delete the link by changing the apply retention label to "None" in the properties.

1) Click on the info Icon in the top right corner
2) Click Edit for thr properties section
3) Change "Apply Retention label" to "None"
4) Save and now you should be able to delete it.

Hope this helps.

It looks like Microsoft block all files with label "File-10-years-retention" from deleting or editing. May be while creating links or adding any files keep the retention Label to "None" so you don't have to face this issue.