Old records still showing on Sanity

Question

I have created a Sanity.io CMS, I have made some alterations to the schema after content had already been entered. The problem now is that the content is still saved somewhere inside the cms and I have no way to remove it.

Answer 1

There are several ways of deleting documents which are no longer visible in the Studio:

• Make the Studio render the old documents, either by temporarily putting back the original schema, or defining a list using Structure Builder which will render the old docs
• Write a script which queries for all documents by that type, and have the script delete them
• Use the Sanity CLI to query for and later delete the documents, e.g. sanity documents query '*[_type == "unwantedType"]._id' and then sanity documents delete [list-of-unwanted-doc-ids]

Answer 2

I re-imported the documents that I had changed/ removed back into the schema.js file and removed them via the studio. The other alternative, for now, is to use the API to delete the records.