> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.blaxel.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delete a folder and its contents > Deletes a folder and all its contents directly in drive storage. This is synchronous and non-atomic. If it times out or fails, some contents may have been deleted; retry the same path to finish cleanup. An absent folder succeeds. The drive root and internal metadata cannot be deleted. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/controlplane.yml delete /drives/{driveName}/folders openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Blaxel Control Plane version: 0.0.1 servers: - description: Blaxel Control Plane url: https://api.blaxel.ai/v0 - description: Blaxel Inference url: https://run.blaxel.ai security: - OAuth2: - admin - ApiKeyAuth: [] paths: /drives/{driveName}/folders: delete: tags: - drives summary: Delete a folder and its contents description: >- Deletes a folder and all its contents directly in drive storage. This is synchronous and non-atomic. If it times out or fails, some contents may have been deleted; retry the same path to finish cleanup. An absent folder succeeds. The drive root and internal metadata cannot be deleted. operationId: DeleteDriveFolder parameters: - in: path name: driveName required: true schema: type: string - description: >- Relative folder path ending in a slash, for example documents/reports/. in: query name: path required: true schema: maxLength: 1024 type: string responses: '204': description: Folder and its contents deleted, or folder already absent '400': description: Invalid folder path '401': description: Unauthorized '403': description: Insufficient permissions, protected path, or drives feature disabled '404': description: Drive not found '409': description: Drive unavailable or requested path is not a folder '502': description: Storage unavailable or deletion incomplete; retry to finish cleanup '504': description: >- Deletion timed out and may be partially complete; retry to finish cleanup security: - OAuth2: - drives:delete - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: securitySchemes: OAuth2: description: OAuth2 authentication with 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resources models:create: Create models models:delete: Delete models models:get: Get model details models:list: List models models:update: Update models policies:create: Create policies policies:delete: Delete policies policies:get: Get policy details policies:list: List policies policies:update: Update policies sandboxes:control: Control sandbox operations sandboxes:create: Create sandboxes sandboxes:delete: Delete sandboxes sandboxes:get: Get sandbox details sandboxes:list: List sandboxes sandboxes:update: Update sandboxes sandboxhub:list: List sandbox hub resources secrets:create: Create secrets secrets:delete: Delete secrets secrets:list: List secrets templates:get: Get template details templates:list: List templates volumeTemplates:create: Create volume templates volumeTemplates:delete: Delete volume templates volumeTemplates:get: Get volume template details volumeTemplates:list: List volume templates volumeTemplates:upsert: Create or update volume templates volumes:create: Create volumes volumes:delete: Delete volumes volumes:get: Get volume details volumes:list: List volumes workspaces:accept: Accept workspace invitation workspaces:create: Create workspaces workspaces:decline: Decline workspace invitation workspaces:delete: Delete workspaces workspaces:get: Get workspace details workspaces:invite: Invite users to workspace workspaces:leave: Leave workspace workspaces:list: List workspaces workspaces:remove: Remove users from workspace workspaces:update: Update workspaces tokenUrl: /oauth/token type: oauth2 ApiKeyAuth: bearerFormat: API Key description: Long-lived API key for programmatic access scheme: bearer type: http ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.