How to delete a workspace in Perforce using p4v

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I m new to Perforce and have created a few workspaces as exercises for getting familiar with it  Now I would like to delete some of the workspaces  I just want to get rid of the workspaces so that they do not appear on the drop-down in the workspaces view  do not want to do anything with actual depot files    Googling up an answer yields the suggestion to  make the workspace active   I guess that means select it in the workspace dropdown   and then delete it from the  edit  menu  Unfortunately  the delete option is grayed-out when I try this   Anyone know how to do this  or do I just have to live with junk workspaces  I ve physically deleted one of them from the disk  and it still appears in the workspace drop down  and I can t even synchronise it with the depot now  so I guess that s not how to do it

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Ctrl   5      Delete the relevant workspace

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In P4V click View   Workspaces  If the workspace to be deleted is not visible in the list you may have to uncheck the box Show only workspaces available for use on this computer  Right-click the workspace to be deleted and choose Edit Workspace  My workspace   On the Advanced tab uncheck the box Locked  only the owner can edit workspace settings   then click OK  Now back on the Workspaces tab of Perforce right-click the workspace to be deleted and choose Delete Workspace  My workspace   P4V should remove the item from the drop-down list when clicking on it   There is a case where a previously deleted workspace remains in the drop-down list  and P4V displays the following error      P4V Workspace Switch Error  This workspace cannot be used on this computer either because the host field does not match your computer name or the workspace root cannot be used on this computer    If this error occurs  the workspace possibly on another host  may have only been unloaded  Click the P4V Workspaces Recycle bin    In the resulting Unloaded Workspaces window right-click the offending workspace and choose Delete Workspace  My workspace   P4V should now remove the workspace item from the drop-down list

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From the  View  menu  select  Workspaces   You ll see all of the workspaces you ve created  Select the workspaces you want to delete and click  Edit  -   Delete Workspace   or right-click and select  Delete Workspace   If the workspace is  locked  to prevent changes  you ll get an error message   To unlock the workspace  click  Edit   or right-click and click  Edit Workspace   to pull up the workspace editor  uncheck the  locked  checkbox  and save your changes  You can delete the workspace once it s unlocked   In my experience  the workspace will continue to be shown in the drop-down list until you click on it  at which point p4v will figure out you ve deleted it and remove it from the list

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If you have successfully deleted from workspace tab but still it is showing in drop down menu  Then also you can successfully remove that by following these steps    Go to C  Users user name  p4qt   user name will be your username of your computer   Inside 001Clients folder WorkspaceSettings xml file will be there    There will be two tag    varName    RecentlyUsedWorkspaces  remove the deleted workspace tag  A propertyList tag will be there with varName deleted workspace name  delete that tag     from drop down menu workspace name will be deleted

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It could also be done without a visual client with the following small script     cat   bin pdel     bin sh   Todo  add error handling    p4 -c  1 client -o   perl -pne  s  blocked s      p4 -c  1  client -i    amp  amp  p4 client -d  1

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