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October 14, 2015
 
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Rodrigo Girardi Adami
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October 14, 2015

Hi Team,

Also note that users who created content in Confluence cannot be deleted. Just disabled.

When a user haven't created any content, then it can be deleted from the instance entirely.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

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October 15, 2015

So what happens if one deletes a user who created content? This is not recommened but is there a warning and you can do it or is it simply not possible?

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Rodrigo Girardi Adami
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October 15, 2015

Hi Anne, If the user created content, it's not possible to delete the user through the user interface of the application. Only the disable option appears. However, it's still possible to remove the user from the database, which is definitely not recommended since it would leave orphaned rows in the database and cause issues in the future.

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October 15, 2015

HI Rodrigo, sorry, I missed that this is about confluence cloud.

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Giuliano C_
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October 14, 2015

For additional info, you can look at this article: https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/add-edit-and-remove-users-744721624.html for Confluence Cloud. smile

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Guilherme V.
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October 14, 2015

Hey there,

You can disable(deactivate) the user directly in the User Management page

Cheers,

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