# Cleaning up excess google sheets in project

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/cleaning-up-excess-google-sheets-in-project/42471>\
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**Created:** [May 28, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cleaning-up-excess-google-sheets-in-project/42471 "2022-05-28T14:03:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cleaning-up-excess-google-sheets-in-project/42471/1 "2022-05-28T14:03:30Z")

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As a new user I have used GDE as a sandbox and for development.

Many ideas that have been scrapped (especially tables I don’t need anymore) which still sit in the Google sheet and the GDE.

I need to start deleting these sheets (after checking ‘use’).

My plan was:

1. Make a copy of the Google sheet as an archive.
2. Delete ALL not-in-use sheets from google (project has about 30 ‘not-in-use’ tables out of 80ish currently in the project - a mixture of Glide and gSheets)
3. Let it sync and pray…

Feedback appreciated!

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cleaning-up-excess-google-sheets-in-project/42471/2 "2022-05-28T14:13:52Z")

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Should be fine.  
As long as you check each column with “Find all Uses” first, then deleting a sheet from a Google Spreadsheet is perfectly safe. When I do this, I generally delete all computed columns in the related Glide Table one by one first. Not really necessary, but I generally prefer to err on the side of caution.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cleaning-up-excess-google-sheets-in-project/42471/3 "2022-05-29T14:14:28Z")

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