Deleting Your Data

You own your documents, and removing one is straightforward. It helps to know how your data is scoped first, because that determines what "your data" means whether you are working as a guest or signed in.

Deleting a document

You can delete a document from the Explorer or from the editor. Open the row's ellipsis menu, or the Current Document menu in the Explorer panel, and choose Delete.

Deleting a document moves it to the Trash, where it waits for 30 days before it is removed for good, along with the content that belongs only to it, such as its tabs and comments. While it waits, its share links stop working and it disappears from your lists, and you can restore it with everything it had. To remove it straight away, delete it permanently from the Trash.

If you have organised documents into folders, you can also tidy up by moving documents between folders or removing folders, separately from deleting the documents themselves.

How your data is scoped

Where your data lives depends on how you are identified:

• As a guest, your documents are owned by your per-browser id, stored in that one browser. Your data is scoped to that browser, so clearing the browser's storage removes the app's link to your guest content, and using a different browser or device shows a fresh, empty workspace.
• When signed in, your documents are owned by your account and synced across every device where you sign in. Deleting a document removes it everywhere, because the account is the single source of truth.

Deleting your account is the exception to the Trash: it removes every document at once, including anything already in the Trash.

Because guest content is per browser, the simplest way to clear everything you created as a guest is to delete the documents you no longer want, or to clear that browser's storage, which removes the app's record of your guest identity on that device.