Deleting disabled Thing gets stuck

[rkoshak]

Expected Behavior

If a Thing is deleted, it actually gets removed.

Current Behavior

If the Thing is disabled and then one tries to delete it. The Thing transitions to the "marked for deletion" state both in the UI and in events.log. But there it remains. When restarting OH, the Thing comes back in a disabled state.

However, if one first enables the Thing and then deletes it, the Thing is removed as expected.

Steps to Reproduce (for Bugs)

1. Disable a Thing
2. Attempt to delete it
3. Reboot OH and see that the Thing comes back as disabled
4. Enable the Thing
5. Successfully delete it

Context

It's not a big deal and there is a work around. But it is annoying and should be fixed.

Your Environment

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clientInfo:
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timestamp: 2026-04-17T18:11:15.082Z

[andrewfg]

@rkoshak just to confirm that I see this too.