Deleting shapes

[JarvisH]

The API offers an endpoint to delete shapes, but is it possible to delete shapes via the file-system directly e.g. when manually cleaning up old shapes?

As far as I can tell Electric uses three folders for storing data: meta, shapes, state, can files be directly removed from any of these folders without causing clients to fail?

[MukundaKatta]

Don't hand-edit the storage dirs while Electric is running — its LSM-style state in state/ and the shape metadata in meta/ must stay consistent or clients see phantom shapes. Safe path: stop Electric, remove the shape subdir under shapes/<shape_id>/, then the corresponding entry in meta/shapes.db (or wipe meta/ entirely if you don't mind re-syncing all clients). The DELETE API is idempotent and costs very little — scripting it over stale shapes is usually cleaner than filesystem surgery.