# How to delete a view from the view directory?

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidiancontrol.com/t/how-to-delete-a-view-from-the-view-directory/6424>\
**Category:** Software\
**Created:** [October 1, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.obsidiancontrol.com/t/how-to-delete-a-view-from-the-view-directory/6424 "2020-10-01T21:13:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![arretx](https://forum.obsidiancontrol.com/user_avatar/forum.obsidiancontrol.com/arretx/32/3036_2.png) [@arretx](https://forum.obsidiancontrol.com/u/arretx)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.obsidiancontrol.com/t/how-to-delete-a-view-from-the-view-directory/6424/1 "2020-10-01T21:13:00Z")

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So, I’m looking at my screen and I have a sidebar with various views. One of those pulls up the View directory. If I delete one of those views, the sidebar updates to “View # whatever” instead of clearing out, and then that view shows up back in the View Directory as the numeric representation of that View’s position.

Confusing. If I use the “Delete” --\> Select View --\> Enter function from the keypad, and the view disappears from the view directory, why does it also not disappear from the sidebar?