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title: Exercise 2 -- Permanently delete items from the recycle bin
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

## Exercise 2: Permanently delete items from the recycle bin

**Goal:** Learn when and how to permanently remove content. Understand that permanent deletion cannot be taken back.

1. Open the **Recycle bin** application.
2. Select the item you want to delete permanently.
3. Click **Delete permanently**.
4. Review if the item isn't referenced in some place where it should not be deleted from.
5. If all looks good, confirm the action.

> **Key:** **Permanent deletion cannot be undone.**
> Before permanently deleting an item, ask yourself:
>
> - Are you sure this content will never be reused?
> - Does it contain large assets?
> - Could some other team member still need to use it as a reference in some place?
>
> If you’re unsure, leave the item in the recycle bin, and answer those questions before the retention period expires.