# Disabling thousands of unused tags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-thousands-of-unused-tags/41764>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 23, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-thousands-of-unused-tags/41764 "2020-12-23T18:46:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-thousands-of-unused-tags/41764/1 "2020-12-23T18:46:05Z")

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Someone in our organisation - culprit yet to be identified - has created a project and imported all the PLC tags - 35,184 of them - into the project. They’re probably only using a couple of hundred. There are a couple more similar projects. I’m sure that this is chewing up network and gateway bandwidth.

What are other users doing …

1. To prevent this?
2. To clean up? Has anyone got a cunning scheme to disable unused tags?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-thousands-of-unused-tags/41764/2 "2020-12-23T18:51:45Z")

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1. Flog the offender when identified? Tar and feathers? Public shaming?

(I made my drivers include data type information in the Browse descriptions so you get horrible names if you drag and drop whole hierarchies…)

1. Unfortunately, no. Though you don’t want to disable them. You want to delete them. If there’s only a few actually used, consider just deleting the whole block and letting your UI tell you what it wants. /:

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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-thousands-of-unused-tags/41764/3 "2020-12-23T18:55:01Z")

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I thought auditing caught tag creation?

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-thousands-of-unused-tags/41764/4 "2020-12-23T19:54:06Z")

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It does, assuming you have auditing on… Which you should… Auditing should be on by default imnsho!

The answer is: hire intelligent people!