# Deleting Nested Records

**URL:** <https://forum.adalo.com/t/deleting-nested-records/56392>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [May 28, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/deleting-nested-records/56392 "2025-05-28T19:26:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThunderBlade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@ThunderBlade](https://forum.adalo.com/u/ThunderBlade)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/deleting-nested-records/56392/1 "2025-05-28T19:26:49Z")

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I have a Nested Collection (A collection of People that has a secondary collection of toys that the people own).

I am trying to make a delete command that will delete people that are no longer needed. I also would like to delete their toys from the toys collection that belonged to the people that are deleted.

I currently can delete the people, but have not found a way to also delete the toys from the One to Many collection.

Anyone have a work for this?

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**Author:** ![eduscvs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/eduscvs/32/25597_2.png) [@eduscvs](https://forum.adalo.com/u/eduscvs)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/deleting-nested-records/56392/2 "2025-05-28T20:05:36Z")

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Hi ThunderBlade

This topic has been explored extensively in this forum. Search for “Mass Delete”, you can get a working solution.

Best Regards

Jay

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**Author:** ![Victor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/victor/32/2054_2.png) [@Victor](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Victor)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/deleting-nested-records/56392/4 "2025-05-29T07:32:53Z")

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Hi @ThunderBlade,

For smaller number of records, Countdown component may help.  
For larger number of records (say, \>20-30-40), I’d say that using Collections API is the only reliable solution.

Some useful tutorials about timer I’ve made long time ago:  
[https://youtu.be/dpORKAPF-tE](https://youtu.be/dpORKAPF-tE),  
[https://youtu.be/sDsTHeI8CiQ](https://youtu.be/sDsTHeI8CiQ).

When deleting records in bulk, be careful with filters - with wrong filter setting you can accidentally delete wrong records.

As @eduscvs mentioned, this is a hot topic and it’s been discussed multiple times.

Best,  
Victor.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/system/32/40401_2.png) [@system](https://forum.adalo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/deleting-nested-records/56392/5 "2025-06-08T07:33:52Z")

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