# Purging Gateway Database tag folders

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/purging-gateway-database-tag-folders/43071>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [February 5, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/purging-gateway-database-tag-folders/43071 "2021-02-05T14:35:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/purging-gateway-database-tag-folders/43071/1 "2021-02-05T14:35:48Z")

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So I develop the world’s best Ignition solution for my customer using a lovingly crafted DB connector. However when my customer takes a look at my work he goes “That DB connector you have there, the name is offensive to me. Change it!!!”

So I go into the gateway and do a rename of the DB connector. No big deal. Less than a minute to do (and not much more needed fixing the project). However when I then browse the system tags …

- I still see the offensive tags listed under “Gateway/Database/OffensiveName”.
- These tags have survived a restart of the GW (using gwcmd)
- These tags survived a full reboot of the GW server itself.

How do I purge these old/irrelevant system tags?

**edit**

I was a little bit hasty with my question. The tags are gone, but the folder that contained them still remained. Basically the same question though.

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/purging-gateway-database-tag-folders/43071/2 "2021-02-05T16:11:41Z")

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I wouldn’t necessarily touch the system tag folders, believe those are all autogenerated by the system and modifying/deleting seems like a good way to mess something up.

What version are you using? Generally anytime you ask a question here, you should list what version as sometimes its a known bug fixed in the next iteration.

What was the offensive name exactly, perhaps the name itself had something in it problematic to ignition like a reserved keyword or something.

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**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/purging-gateway-database-tag-folders/43071/3 "2021-02-05T16:16:39Z")

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To answer your questions:

- This is for v8.1.2, Linux
- The name being “offensive” was meant as a joke. The situation is simply that I am renaming a DB connector
- Even though you are presented with a contextual menu for deleting a system folder, it does nothing
- I expect that the system folders are autogenerated. But the auto generation seems to to be failing in this case.