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Delete corrupted hosted feature layer

Woosh_AP — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:18:50 GMT

A hosted feature layer in our organisation's ArcGIS Enterprise became completely corrupted following an attempt to overwrite it. I am now trying to delete it, however it is 'delete protected' and I cannot access the layer's settings page at all (see screenshot) to disable the deletion protection and delete it from there, as I just get a continuous "Loading..." screen. Is there a workaround in the backend or otherwise to delete it?

Re: Delete corrupted hosted feature layer

Priya_Das — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:33:46 GMT

Hi @Woosh_AP

Is this issue occurring to one specific Hosted Layer and all the hosted layer
If this is issue is specific to one hosted layer, you can delete from the backend
- https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/000016345
- https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/000024798

Re: Delete corrupted hosted feature layer

Woosh_AP — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:35:27 GMT

Thanks @Priya_Das . The first link seems to partially work. The problematic feature layer then persisted on Enterprise in the content menu. I then had to redo the same for all view layers and then reindex the content.

Thanks for your solution.

Re: Delete corrupted hosted feature layer

Priya_Das — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:42:22 GMT

Hi @Woosh_AP I am glad to hear you were able to delete the layer successfully.