topic Re: Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud in Management & Governance

Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud

ManuelRühl — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:27:27 GMT

Good Morning Community,

I want to delete a "Data Space", but when I press the delete Button, nothing happens.

The path is Dataintegration -> Projects. We dont have Talend, but I wanted to store QVDs within a data space.

What is the best practice to store QVDs within Qlik Cloud ? Shared, Managed or Data ?

Thanks for reply!

Re: Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud

marksouzacosta — Sat, 17 May 2025 01:40:42 GMT

Hi @ManuelRühl,

Try delete the Space from the Administration > Spaces. Keep in mind that having content in the Space may block you from deleting the Space. Make sure it is empty.

Regarding best practices to store QVD files, this is a very good question and there is no right and wrong answer. You just need to define your patterns/conventions and follow them. Currently we are using Data Spaces to store QVD files and naming them according to the Database, Data Source or Line of Business plus if the data is for DEV, QA or PROD.

Regards,

Mark Costa

Re: Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud

ManuelRühl — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:45:21 GMT

Thanks for reply!

Unfortunately I can't delete data spaces, even if they are empty. But it's ok.

I will use data spaces now to store QVDs.

Re: Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud

Skage — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:28:46 GMT

Hi Manuel.

You are not alone with this issue. I'm in the exact same situation.

I wanted to show someone how to create a space, data space in this instance. I'm the owner, there are no resources, users or anything else in the space but I still can't delete it.

I just get an error "Failed to delete space". <facepalm>

/lars

Re: Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud

PWJ67 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:18:52 GMT

Hello.
I have the same problem and I've reproduced it :
1. Create a data space "test"
2. Delete this new data space "test"
3. "Failed to delete space".
I've tried deco/reco, no effects

Re: Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud

vkal12 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:27:26 GMT

Hello everyone,

is there any solution to this topic? I have just created a data space but under administration > spaces > space konfiguration I am not able to delete the data space. I get the same error message as mentioned above.

Best regards,
Vanessa

Re: Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud

Chip_Matejowsky — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:35:20 GMT

Hello,

Another method for deleting a Space would be to use Qlik Automate. This video does a great job of detailing the steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtjcgyMk6E4, so you may want to give this a try.

Re: Delete Data Space in Qlik Cloud

vkal12 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:16:16 GMT

Thanks for the video - this works perfect for me at the moment! But I still wonder why it is not possible to delete an empty data space directly from the administration console. Seems like a bug...