Deleting and Restoring a Task
From Item view
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Open the task 1 you want to delete in Item view.
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Click the three-dot menu 2 in the upper-right corner of the task's Item view.
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Select Delete 3.
From Table view
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Open the project or folder where the task you want to delete is located.
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Right-click the task 1 or click the three-dot menu 2 located near to the task's name.
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Select Delete 3 from the dropdown that appears.
Once deleted, the task is placed in the Recycle bin.
Important
When a task with subtasks is deleted and:
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the subtask is tagged in an additional task, or in a folder, project, or space, then the subtask continues to live in the additional tasks, folders, and projects that it's tagged in. In this case, the subtask won't include any information indicating that its parent task (or one of its parent tasks) was deleted.
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the subtask is included only in that task (the parent task), then the subtask is deleted when the parent task is deleted.
To delete multiple tasks at the same time:
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Navigate to the folder, project, or space where the tasks which you want to delete are located.
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Switch to Table view.
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Check the boxes next to tasks you want to delete.
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Click the Delete button from the toolbar that appears at the top-right of the task list.
Data in the Recycle bin can be accessed and restored by anyone who shared it before deletion.
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Click on your Profile image 1 located at the top-right corner of the sidebar.
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Click Recycle bin 2.
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If the list is too big, type the name of the task in the Search option located at the top of the sidebar. Check the In recycle bin 3 to see relevant results.
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Right-click a task in the list and select Restore 4.
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Alternatively, open the task in Item view and click Restore 5.
To restore multiple tasks at the same time
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Click on your Profile image 1 located at the top-right corner of the sidebar.
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Click Recycle bin 2.
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Click the Mass edit icon located above the task list.
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Check the box to the left of the tasks you want to restore.
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Click the Restore option in the panel that appears to the right of the list.
Yes, Wrike admins can permanently delete tasks from the Recycle bin. To do so they have to open a task from Recycle bin in Item view and click Delete forever. You can delete multiple tasks at once by clicking the Mass edit icon and checking the boxes to the left of the tasks that you want to delete and then clicking Delete in the panel that appears at the top-right of the list.
On the Team plan, there is no option to restore deleted items and no Recycle bin to store them. But it is still possible to open a deleted task using its permalink. In this case, you will not see any parent project/folder/task tags on a deleted item, only the space that this task belonged to. To verify that the task you are looking at has been deleted, check the records in the task activity stream. If a subtask was deleted along with its parent task, the deletion record would be posted only at the parent task level.