How do i delete unused States?

[Pascal Kontschan]

In the How to it says:
"Statuses can be shared between workflows. Deleting a status in the workflow editor only removes the status from the workflow you're currently editing."

I accidentally created duplicate States, different names tough, an i now want to prevent the wrong ones to be used and want to delete them completly from the drop down list. The "todo" without "-"  is no longer used in any workflow but still shown.

[Jack Brickey]

You need to do this as follows:

1. remove from every associated workflow
2. Now go to - Jira settings > Issues > statuses and use the Delete link. If the Delete link is not there then the status is still being used by some workflow.

[Pascal Kontschan]

Service Desk statuses are not in that list.