# Deleting songs in database in one operation **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/deleting-songs-in-database-in-one-operation/165 "2019-06-19T09:09:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ond1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/ond1/32/49_2.png) [@ond1](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/ond1)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/deleting-songs-in-database-in-one-operation/165/1 "2019-06-19T09:09:32Z")
Hi, Is it possible to delete a group of songs or all songs in one go? In the songs list I have to select the songs individually to delete each one. ---
**Author:** ![berry120](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/berry120/32/4_2.png) [@berry120](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/berry120)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/deleting-songs-in-database-in-one-operation/165/2 "2019-06-21T11:51:34Z")
Afraid not at the moment - you can delete the “database\_new” folder in C:\users\USERNAME.quelea if you want to remove the lot though. ---
**Author:** ![ond1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/ond1/32/49_2.png) [@ond1](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/ond1)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/deleting-songs-in-database-in-one-operation/165/3 "2019-06-21T12:04:45Z")
Ok Thanks. I will just have to do that for the time being. Just was not sure if I could just delete the database\_new folder without breaking the program ---
**Author:** ![Terry73178](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/terry73178/32/32_2.png) [@Terry73178](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/Terry73178)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/deleting-songs-in-database-in-one-operation/165/4 "2025-11-13T00:40:50Z")
I would like to do this also…… I have several items in my song list (Sermon scriptures) that is listed several times. ---
**Author:** ![JessyJP](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/jessyjp/32/292_2.png) [@JessyJP](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/JessyJP)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/deleting-songs-in-database-in-one-operation/165/5 "2025-11-13T01:15:00Z")
It’s just a database file. A viewer/editor would do. VS code / Intelij have some useful plugins/extensions. Also you could alter it with some tool with WSL if you are on windows. Also, maybe preferably, you can dump export everything (it’s a zip essentially). Clean up the files as you wish. Edit the zip or individual file contents or delete files. Then reimport. ---
**Author:** ![DeeTigIT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@DeeTigIT](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DeeTigIT)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/deleting-songs-in-database-in-one-operation/165/6 "2025-11-13T05:55:48Z")
Until release 2022.0 this was not possible. Starting with 2024.0 it is: Allow multiple selection in song database. Please also note the recent post: > [@Quelea software update](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/quelea-software-update/1265): > > Hi, We are using Quelea 2018. I assume there are natural benefits of updating to the 2024 release. As a compelte novice at Quelea, can anyone send me any information about how to update? When to update? (I assume I can backup the settings first and reinitiate those later?) Many thanks. It says: “If you want to be sure you don’t lose anything, then backup your “.quelea” folder in your home directory first. If you’re on windows, it’ll be somewhere like “C:\users\USERNAME.quelea”. (This way if anything does go wrong, you can just reinstall 2018.0, copy that directory back in place and you won’t have lost anything.” ---
**Author:** ![d2866](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/d2866/32/610_2.png) [@d2866](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/d2866)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/deleting-songs-in-database-in-one-operation/165/7 "2026-05-13T18:15:08Z")
You can hold down the [CTRL] key (control) when left clicking each entry, this will highlight multiple entries. When you have selected all the required entries release the Ctrl key then right click on one of the selected items and from the menu select “Remove song”. This will then remove all the highlighted entries in one operation.