How do I delete a project with no tasks assigned to it?

[sdondley]

I have TW set up to show all projects in tab completion. However, old ones with typos in the name are showing up and I'd like to delete them. How can I do this?

[djmitche]

I suspect that the tab completion is using task projects to get the list of projects. In that case, it is finding those incorrect project names in completed (or maybe deleted?) projects. Try deleting and purging the tasks with the incorrect projects, and see if that helps.

[sdondley]

Thanks. I ended up figuring it out. Long story short is I had to modify the completed tasks over to correctly spelled project name.

task +COMPLETE project:bad m project:good

Feature request: make this more intuitive. I think I've had to google it like 5 times over the years.

[tbabej]

Slight remark: If you don't have any context active, task project:bad mod project:good should affect all the tasks, including the completed ones 🙂

[sdondley]

Yeah that was exactly one of my problems. I had a context turned on and was running into issues.