# How to delete the existing course in tutor edx

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-delete-the-existing-course-in-tutor-edx/11461>\
**Category:** Site Operations Help\
**Tags:** how-to, tutor\
**Created:** [October 19, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-delete-the-existing-course-in-tutor-edx/11461 "2023-10-19T11:51:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![alishaik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/alishaik/32/4876_2.png) [@alishaik](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/alishaik)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-delete-the-existing-course-in-tutor-edx/11461/1 "2023-10-19T11:51:37Z")

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Hi, I have installed tutor edx on vps server. Now I want to delete few courses using putty because I tried all the possible ways to hide the course it didn’t work in the cms. Also after deletion how do i re-start the tutor ? will using the command tutor local launch will erase my data ? Please suggest a right command to update the changes without causing data loss. Thanks

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**Author:** ![john\_curricume](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/john_curricume/32/5295_2.png) [@john\_curricume](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/john_curricume)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-delete-the-existing-course-in-tutor-edx/11461/2 "2023-10-19T13:03:37Z")

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Hello @alishaik

Your question regarding tutor commands is better suited for the Site Operators channel: [Site Operators - Open edX discussions](https://discuss.openedx.org/c/operators/7)  
The Educators channel is more around creating courses and using studio.

That being said, I think this command will delete your course in Tutor and it won’t lose any data:

```auto
tutor local run cms ./manage.py cms delete_course <your_course_id>

```

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**Author:** ![alishaik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/alishaik/32/4876_2.png) [@alishaik](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/alishaik)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-delete-the-existing-course-in-tutor-edx/11461/3 "2023-10-19T17:52:45Z")

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Thank you for the information.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/e/e0015f89e879bc75925b71fd11133ab15fe98297.png) [@system](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-delete-the-existing-course-in-tutor-edx/11461/4 "2024-01-17T17:52:53Z")

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