Spaces and Pages

Trash and Restore

Trash and Restore

Deleting a page or a space is a soft delete. The item is hidden, not destroyed, and you can bring it back.

Open Trash

Three ways:

• The Trash button at the bottom of the sidebar.
• The trash icon in the collapsed sidebar.
• ⌘ ⇧ ⌫.

Trash opens as a modal over whatever you were doing. There is no trash URL: navigating to /trash redirects to /nexus.

What you see

Two tabs, Pages (n) and Spaces (n). Each row shows the item’s icon, its title, the space it came from, and when it was deleted (Today, Yesterday, 3 days ago, 2 weeks ago, or a date). Each row has Restore and Delete.

An empty trash reads Trash is empty.

Trash lists items from every Nexus you are a member of, including deletions made by other people. Pages are capped at the 100 most recent, spaces at 50.

What happens when you delete

Deleting a page also deletes every page beneath it. The confirmation says so:

“Page title” will be moved to trash. All child pages will also be moved to trash.

Each descendant is trashed individually, so a parent with three children produces four rows in Trash. Nothing in the list indicates which row was the parent.

Deleting a space hides the space and everything in it. Its pages are not marked deleted individually, so they do not appear in the Pages tab. Only the space appears, under Spaces.

While in Trash, pages drop out of search, recently viewed, and favorites. Favorites and watches survive and come back with the page.

Restore

Click Restore.

Restoring a child while its parent is still in Trash leaves the page without a visible parent. It shows up as a top-level item in the sidebar tree, but not in the space’s directory listing, until you restore the parent as well. Restore the parent instead if you want the whole branch back where it was.

Permanent deletion

Delete on a row (tooltip Delete permanently) destroys the item. It appears only on rows from a Nexus you own or administer. Pages take their versions, comments, and every descendant page with them. Spaces take everything they contain.

Each asks first and says what will be destroyed with it. For a space, the question is Permanently delete this space?, and every page in it goes too. For a page it is Permanently delete this page?, and when pages beneath it are in the Trash as well, the title counts them, for example Permanently delete this page and the 3 pages in the Trash with it? Pages beneath it that are not in the Trash are kept, and the question says where they will go. Press Delete permanently to go ahead.

Empty Trash in the header wipes everything at once, across every Nexus you own or administer, including other people’s deletions there. Nexus you are only a member of are left alone, and when nothing from a Nexus you own or administer is in the Trash, the button is not shown. It asks first and counts what will be destroyed, and when the Trash also lists pages from a Nexus you do not administer, it says they stay. The question is Empty the Trash?, unless the empty also destroys pages that were never deleted themselves but sit inside a space in the Trash; then the title counts those, for example Empty the Trash and destroy 4 pages that are not in it? Press Empty Trash to go ahead.