Cannot delete forked runs

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I am hoping to delete a run that’s been created from a fork of another run (I’m not planning on deleting the original run). However, I receive this error:

cannot delete run - run is a fork child

An application error occurred.

in the GUI, and a similar error if I try and delete it with the SDK.

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Hey @ahalev, thanks for flagging this! Would you mind sharing where in the UI you tried to delete the run? I’ll try to reproduce this issue

3

Hello @ahalev, thanks for your patience! I confirmed that deleting forked runs isn’t supported at this moment, so this is expected behavior

4

Thanks for checking. Any reason why and any timeline I should expect that to be supported in the future?

Thanks,
Avishai

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Hey @ahalev! That’s because rewinded runs use a different backend behind the scenes. We don’t have an ETA yet, but thought if using a filter would work for you?

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Hello,

Same behavior for rewinded runs (expected since it’s a specialization of forked runs according to docs).

Pretty weird to encounter this behavior still; there is really no reason why forked runs shouldn’t be deletable, especially since the original one we fork from is…