# Can't delete custom labels? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [August 22, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/cant-delete-custom-labels/738222 "2021-08-22T20:56:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/cant-delete-custom-labels/738222/2 "2021-08-22T22:05:33Z")
I’ve recently run into this too – it appears this can happen under some circumstances. There’s a manual fix described in this thread: > [@Can't delete a label](https://forums.plex.tv/t/cant-delete-a-label/465914): > > There are several threads similar to this but none have resolved answers. I have some labels where i’ve used a + in the middle IE: mom+dad it looks like plex also made an additional tag without the + ie “mom dad” I have three labels like these with the +. Two of them somehow made additional labels with a space. The label with the space instead fo the + aren’t linked to any media. I cannot get them to delete for the life of me. How can I force delete a label. Any help would be greatly appreciated… short version: 1. Execute the `Plex SQLite` app (in the app folder) in the command prompt (power shell, terminal…) 2. enter `.open ""`, pointing to the the `com.plexapp.plugins.library.db` file in the server data directory (-\> `Library` \> `Plex Media Server` \> `Plug-in Support` \> `Databases`) 3. enter `Delete from Tags where Tags.tag="" and Tags.tag_type=11;` and press `return` 4. reload the web app to verify the tag is gone 5. exit the command shell app by entering `.exit` and pressing `return` --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/cant-delete-custom-labels/738222)._