Moving models to the Trash

Updated Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read

The one command that removes files — models, selections, or whole folders — and it uses your system Trash, so anything you send there can be restored.

Everything else in Meshory reads your library. Move to Trash is the one command that takes something out of it, and it hands the file to your operating system's Trash (the Recycle Bin on Windows) rather than deleting it outright, so you can put it back from there until you empty it.

Where the command lives

• Right-click a model in the library and choose Move to Trash.
• Select several models and use Move to Trash from the selection's right-click menu.
• Right-click a folder — or select folders and loose files together — and choose Move to Trash to clear everything indexed inside them. What the confirmation covers is below.
• In the Duplicates view, pick the copies you don't want inside a group and trash them together. That's how a cleanup usually ends.

Trashing whole folders

A folder's confirmation counts what it is about to take — the files, the subfolders, and any archives whose contents go with them — and totals the bytes. If everything inside is indexed, the emptied folder goes too. If files Meshory doesn't index would be left behind (notes, project files, anything the scan never catalogued), the dialog lists them by name and leaves the folder standing, unless you tick Delete the whole folder and take them knowingly. On a network drive there is no Trash, so the same dialog warns you the deletion is permanent. And if what you wanted was a tidier library rather than fewer files, it also offers Just hide it instead, which excludes the folder from the library without touching the disk.

Models that live inside an archive

A model inside a ZIP, RAR or 7Z isn't a file of its own: the only thing on disk is the archive. Meshory won't rewrite your archives, so for those entries the command reads Move archive to Trash and the confirmation names the archive it is about to take, siblings and all. Use it only when you meant the whole bundle.