PSU - Deleting Files from a File Section

This article describes how to delete files from file section on Mahara. This article will be most helpful to PSU faculty interested in deleting files from a file section on Mahara.

Summary

 This article describes how to delete files from file section on Mahara. This article will be most helpful to PSU faculty interested in deleting files from a file section on Mahara.

 

How-To

 

Instructions

Step 1 - Log onto Mahara.

Step 2 - Click on Main Menu in the upper right side of the dashboard page indicated by horizontal lines.

Step 3 - Click on the down arrow next to Create title.

Step 4 - Click on the Files sub-title.

Step 5 - Find duplicate files by scrolling down through the list of files

Step 6 - Click the "Trash Can" icon next to the file you want deleted.

NOTE: If you have two files. One called "test.pdf" and one has a number appended to it, for example "test. pdf.1". The file with the number was brought into Mahara after the file without the a number. So in this example "test.pdf.1" is the most recent copy. Do not forget the date format is DD/MM/YYYY.

 

Outcome

Users should be able to delete files from a file section on Mahara.

 

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