# Undeletable things in Dashboard menu

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/undeletable-things-in-dashboard-menu/1200>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [30 June 2018 05:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/undeletable-things-in-dashboard-menu/1200 "2018-06-30T05:04:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2018 05:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/undeletable-things-in-dashboard-menu/1200/1 "2018-06-30T05:04:26Z")

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While trying to work out the other post's problem I discovered I have a couple of entries on my dashboard list which I can't delete..

When I open them, they are set to that page, but if I "EDIT" them and say DELETE, nothing happens.

There was originally one, now there are TWO! (They're breeding!)

How do I delete them?

![Screenshot%20from%202018-06-30%2015-00-33](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/c383beac238682d572f1d30fbc6b216f87b49783.png)

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**Author:** ![Andrei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/andrei/32/10446_2.png) [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2018 05:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/undeletable-things-in-dashboard-menu/1200/2 "2018-06-30T05:51:58Z")

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It is a good practice to always name your nodes, so it becomes easier to find them as well as to understand the msgs in the debug panel. See in picture below what i mean.

In your case I suspect the template nodes that you indicated are lost somewhere in other tabs.

![r-0001](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/f873f451692058a304a7639a1203b56e9487684c.PNG)

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2018 06:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/undeletable-things-in-dashboard-menu/1200/3 "2018-06-30T06:00:33Z")

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Yes, ok. I accept that they may be lost on other tabs.

But when I go to them - in the right column - and EDIT them, they come up as …  
(You won’t believe me but they have since gone…)  
They came up as being on that dashboard item.  
LCD\_weather/testy  
And if I pressed DELETE they didn’t.  
I would not have thought that it would matter which part of the dashboard list I have displaying, if I press DELETE they would be deleted.

Alas - typically - after me asking for help because they wouldn’t go away and you replied: they have gone away for reasons unknown to me.

Sorry.

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2018 07:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/undeletable-things-in-dashboard-menu/1200/4 "2018-06-30T07:01:49Z")

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If in doubt refresh the browser page first to check front end is in sync with the server.

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**Author:** ![SteveMann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/stevemann/32/3810_2.png) [@SteveMann](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/SteveMann)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2018 16:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/undeletable-things-in-dashboard-menu/1200/5 "2018-06-30T16:03:20Z")

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I don’t know if this is the _right_ way, but when I have unknown nodes in a flow, I get a warning when I “deploy”, and that warning gives me a few seconds to “click here to see where” (or something similar). From there it’s easy to delete and deploy again.

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2018 22:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/undeletable-things-in-dashboard-menu/1200/6 "2018-06-30T22:23:20Z")

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Yes, I have seen those.

Alas there was no such warning.

I DEPLOYed the browser many times and yet these nodes remained there.

I would go into the dashboard and see them, but putting the mouse over them no node would highlight.

After several minutes they went away - while I was asking here.

Sorry. That’s what happened.