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Closing and deleting projects

Closing and deleting projects

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Closing and deleting projects

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- [Instructor] Now, let's say we are finished with this project and we don't need it anymore, or we have messed up in some way or we just want to start over for any reason. And we want, you know what? We don't want this anymore. The best way to do that is to either close or delete the project. So you go to settings, and you have in your danger zone, you have close project, it will disable its workflows and remove it from the list of open projects, or delete project. Once you delete a project, there is no going back. Now, the difference between closing and deletion is similar to the difference between archiving and deletion. So archiving would mean it'll be removed from the list of open projects. It'll go to closed, but you can still view it but you just won't be able to do anything and you may be able to bring it back if you need to. Deleting the project though, there's no going back. You need to be certain because…

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