# Check If a Tag Is Used Before Deleting or Renaming

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/check-if-a-tag-is-used-before-deleting-or-renaming/4485>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 17, 2012, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/check-if-a-tag-is-used-before-deleting-or-renaming/4485 "2012-05-17T07:34:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/check-if-a-tag-is-used-before-deleting-or-renaming/4485/13 "2020-02-03T19:23:18Z")

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I agree this would be really useful and wonder how reasonable it would be for IA to implement.

> [@Quick way to find unused tags?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-way-to-find-unused-tags/31490/5):
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> How crazy an idea would it be to have a last read timestamp property on tags?

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