Delete site shows data after adding it back

[woutrbe]

I recently deleted a site from my account, and about a week later added it back, however I'm still seeing the previous data from this site. Is there some sort of grace period?

On the deleting page, it does say;

This will remove all associated data and is the current site.

I haven't actively investigated this further, but does this potentially open the door to being able to see data from deleted sites from other accounts?

[arp242]

It "soft-deletes" for a week and then it permanently removes stuff, just in case people change their minds. The "undelete" is intentional, although I can see how that's confusing.

does this potentially open the door to being able to see data from deleted sites from other accounts?

No, it should check for that: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/blob/d2bd78c/handlers/settings.go#L292-L294

[woutrbe]

Thanks for the quick answer, that makes sense. I sort of guessed that’s how it would work, but wanted to raise it anyway, just in case.

i think it might be helpful to mention this on the delete page, to avoid confusion.

[arp242]

i think it might be helpful to mention this on the delete page, to avoid confusion.

I might just remove it; need to think about it but it would make everything simpler. It's been like this since day one, but it hasn't really come up very often; I think only one person has asked to "undelete" their site. I added the "undelete" much later after someone did what you did: delete site and then re-create it. But just deleting everything would have been fine there too.

And all things considered, it's not really that important data in the grand scheme of things, and I do have backups if it is (although it's a pain to restore one site from them, it can be done).

[arp242]

In the meanwhile, what you can do is first rename the site you want to delete, then delete it, and then re-use that name for a new site.

Or you can just delete all data from "manage pageviews" and entering "%".