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DeleteObject [obj]

deletes the object obj.

DeleteObject [{obj1,obj2,}]

deletes all the obji.

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DeleteObject [obj]

deletes the object obj.

DeleteObject [{obj1,obj2,}]

deletes all the obji.

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Basic Examples  (2)

Remove a local object:

Create a local object:

Create a cloud object:

Delete them both at once:

Scope  (12)

Remove a persistent object:

Remove all persistent objects with a given key on $ContextPath :

Remove all persistent objects of a given persistence location:

Create a cloud object:

Remove the cloud object:

Create a directory cloud object:

Add something to the directory:

Remove the directory cloud object and its contents:

Remove a channel object:

Permanently delete a databin:

Create, cache and use a data resource object:

Delete the resource:

Retrieve a resource from the public data repository:

Remove the local cache of the resource:

Start an external session:

Stop the session:

Start listening on an available socket, applying a handler function to events:

Stop the session:

Create and then remove a permissions group:

Remove permissions keys from any cloud objects that are using them:

Remove a remote batch job:

Use Once for a form of dynamic programming, using a custom location to cache the values computed:

Find the number of cached values generated:

Remove the cached values before redoing the timing experiment by deleting the custom persistence location:

Properties & Relations  (3)

Symbols and local symbols are removed with Remove :

Files are deleted with DeleteFile :

In contrast to the default behavior of DeleteDirectory , DeleteObject deletes cloud directories even if they contain other objects:

Related Workflows

Wolfram Research (2017), DeleteObject, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DeleteObject.html (updated 2025).

Text

Wolfram Research (2017), DeleteObject, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DeleteObject.html (updated 2025).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2017. "DeleteObject." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2025. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DeleteObject.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2017). DeleteObject. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DeleteObject.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_deleteobject, author="Wolfram Research", title="{DeleteObject}", year="2025", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DeleteObject.html}", note=[Accessed: 16-November-2025]}

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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_deleteobject, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={DeleteObject}, year={2025}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DeleteObject.html}, note=[Accessed: 16-November-2025]}

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