Delete and undo

Deleting one item

Three ways, all the same thing:

• The bin in the row's actions. Hover the row, or select it with the arrow keys, and it is the leftmost button, set apart from the rest so you do not hit it by mistake.
• Delete at the bottom of the row's right-click menu.
• The bin at the bottom left of the edit screen.

An item that is only in your history goes quietly. There is no dialog, because you have hundreds of these and stopping to ask about each one would be worse than the mistake:

Undoing a delete

Press Undo on the toast, or press Ctrl + Z while it is still on screen. The toast stays for about five seconds. The item comes back whole, picture or file included.

Once the toast has gone, so has the undo. Ctrl + Z goes back to being ordinary text undo in the search box.

Vault items ask first

An item in your Vault is there because you put it there, so deleting one is deliberate. Relic asks:

Say yes and Relic confirms with Removed from Vault. There is no Undo on this one. The dialog was the undo.

Deleting several at once

Select the rows (see picking several items at once) and press Delete in the bar. If none of them are kept, they go straight away. If any of them are, Relic asks about the batch:

Either way the whole batch comes back together if you undo it:

Clearing all history

To empty the whole thing at once, open Settings›Vault and storage:

It counts what it is about to remove and asks, with a title like Delete 500 history items? and the line Everything not saved to your Vault is deleted from this device and, as it syncs, from your other devices. This can't be undone. The button to go ahead says Delete history.

• Kept items are not touched. This is only your history.
• There is no undo. The Undo toast is for one delete, not for this.
• The sentence about your other devices only appears when this computer is signed in to sync. Without sync it is only this device.

If what you want is a smaller history rather than no history, set Settings › Vault and storage › Keep recent history instead and let Relic trim the oldest items for you.

Your other devices

A delete travels. Relic keeps a note that the item is gone and sends that note up with everything else, so the next time each of your other devices syncs, the item disappears there too. A device that is switched off catches up when it comes back.

Undo puts the item back the same way, so your other devices end up with it again. See how sync works.