Deleting a package that contains items linked to your content creates broken links. Therefore, if you plan to delete a package, you should first remove any links from your content to the files it contains.

Tip: You can use the Broken Links tool to identify any broken links in your content that result from deleting a package. However, you cannot use this tool to identify broken links resulting from deleting, moving, or renaming items within packages.

The situation might also arise in which you attempt to delete a package as a related document. For example, if a package file is the concept of a module and you delete the module with related documents, the package is deleted as a related document. Note that the entire package is deleted, not just the file linked as the concept of the module. However, you cannot delete a package as a related document if any file it contains is linked to any other document that is not selected for deletion.

Consider the following two examples involving a package named Package AB that contains the files File A and File B:

• First, suppose that File A is linked as the concept of Module A but File B is not linked to any other document. If you delete Module A with related documents, Package AB, including both File A and File B, is deleted. The entire package is deleted, even though only one of the files it contained was linked to the document being deleted.
   
• Now suppose that File A is linked as the concept of Module A and File B is linked as the concept of Module B. If you now attempt to delete Module A with related documents, Package AB is NOT deleted, because of the link between File B and Module B. Further, File A is also not deleted, even though it was directly linked to the document being deleted and is not linked to any other document. In this case, the selected document is successfully deleted, but the related package document is left intact.

Therefore, you cannot create any broken links in your content by deleting a package as a related document.

 Multi-user Considerations

• Documents under version control must be checked in and you must be working online to delete a document from the Library. You can delete new documents that have never been checked in (are not under version control) while working online or offline.
   
  Deleted documents that have been checked in to the Library can be restored if they have not been purged by your Administrator. New documents that have never been checked in cannot be restored.