Deleting a large SharePoint library with retention labels applied to content

[Gurdev Singh]

Are there any clever methods known to anyone for deleting a large SharePoint library that has retention label applied to all its content? I understand we will have to individually delete each item to empty out all folders before any folder and ultimately the library can be removed. Any other ideas?

[#2]

Hi,
What about writing a Script / Code that does the job?

[#3]

Thanks @Juan. PowerShell is our course of action using the Remove-PnPListItem cmdlet. It is going to take few hours and I guess my post was to find out if there is any simpler or faster way but it appears there is not.

[#4]

Adding more details...We ultimately decided to use the retention and disposal labels to accomplish this. Given the root cause behind library unable to be deleted is a long term retention label, deleting items using script was moving these to PreservationHoldLibrary where these will remain for a very long time.

As the data is duplicate and redundant, we have decided to create a new retention label to delete content after 2 days from creation date. This label will be applied to all items in library, making the built-in SharePoint function to then get rid of it for us.

[#5]

@Gurdev Singh 

Deleting the Retention Label and the Policy used to publish it would have remove the label from every single file automatically. Then you could delete the library.