# About Power Delete Permission If your security profile has the **Vault Owner Actions**: **Power Delete** permission, your ability to delete documents and binders is less restricted than other users. This functionality allows you to perform maintenance and document clean-up tasks. The Power Delete permission does not override document lifecycle role security.

Note: The Power Delete permission allows users to bypass the document deletion controls present for all other users, so we strongly recommend that Admins carefully review their security profile configurations to ensure that this permission is only applied to appropriate accounts.

## How to Delete Like other users, you can access the **Delete** option from the **Actions** or **All Actions** menu in the Library or Doc Info page. You can delete specific document versions from the **Version History** view. As a user with the **Power Delete** permission, you see the same error as other users when you attempt to delete a restricted document. The error dialog lists the reasons why the document cannot be deleted (incoming relationships, binder membership, etc.). Unlike other users, you can click **Delete** to ignore these messages and continue with the delete action. Users with the **Power Delete** permission cannot delete documents in an active workflow or under an approved legal hold. If the document is referenced in an object record, and the Deletion Rules field is set to **Prevent Deletion of the Related Document**, users with the **Power Delete** permission still cannot delete the document.