Permanently deleting a gallery

Some events you want to keep around forever; others you'd rather take down for good — a client requested removal, a test gallery you don't need, an event whose subjects asked for their data to be cleared. PixVenu lets gallery owners permanently delete a gallery from the host dashboard.

The delete affordance lives in a "Danger zone" section at the bottom of the host detail page. It's deliberately destructive: the gallery row, every album, every photo, every guestbook entry, every co-host invitation, every RSVP, every pre-launch signup, and every storage object across the photos / welcome-video / logo buckets all go. The action runs Storage cleanup BEFORE the database row delete (RLS would otherwise prevent the cleanup after the row is gone), then a single foreign-key CASCADE wipes the dependent rows.

Two gates protect you from accidentally hitting it. First, live and scheduled galleries can't be deleted — you need to archive (or unschedule) the gallery first, which removes the public surface and unlocks the delete. Second, the destructive button is disabled until you type the gallery's name verbatim into a confirmation field. The server is also authoritative on this comparison — a fast-fingered host bypassing the gate via devtools still gets rejected.

Once the delete fires, you're routed back to /home/galleries. The deleted gallery's URL — and any printed QR codes that point at it — will return a 404 from that moment on. There's no archive of the deleted content; if you want to keep anything (photos, guestbook messages, RSVP list), download the gallery ZIP and the per-CSV exports BEFORE confirming delete.

For business accounts running subscriptions, deleting a gallery also frees up a slot if your plan is event-count-limited. The replace-an-old-event-with-a-new-event pattern from GP article 127 plays naturally — delete a finished event, activate a new one.