# Delete labels?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-labels/101727>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [May 2, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-labels/101727 "2015-05-02T20:43:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![triplite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/triplite/32/13761_2.png) [@triplite](https://forums.plex.tv/u/triplite)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-labels/101727/1 "2015-05-02T20:43:47Z")

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How can I delete a label that is no longer in use? I still see it in the list of available labels, even though it's not attached to anything anymore.

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**Author:** ![triplite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/triplite/32/13761_2.png) [@triplite](https://forums.plex.tv/u/triplite)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-labels/101727/2 "2015-05-09T21:17:24Z")

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I assume this isn't possible? I'll make it a feature request. [https://forums.plex.tv/topic/161510-feature-request-delete-unused-labels/](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/161510-feature-request-delete-unused-labels/)

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**Author:** ![dane22](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dane22/32/4389_2.png) [@dane22](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dane22)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-labels/101727/3 "2015-05-10T11:48:10Z")

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And Elan returned there saying, that unused labels will be removed what a PMS is restarted, or if an optimize is run

/T

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**Author:** ![armega](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/armega/32/142022_2.png) [@armega](https://forums.plex.tv/u/armega)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-labels/101727/4 "2019-08-08T17:11:19Z")

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I can confirm that I manually ran Optimize task and it did not clear up the unused labels. I can also confirm that restarting the service did not clear the unused labels either.

Any other suggestions?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-labels/101727/5 "2020-01-07T19:45:23Z")

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