Restoring and purging soft deleted records

You can only restore and purge soft deleted records in the publication database after all outstanding conflicts are reviewed in the Conflict Viewer and when there are no broken links. You can never restore and purge soft deleted records when you work at the subscriber sites.

If the outcome of reviewing a conflict in the Conflict Viewer is to keep a soft deleted record, then that record remains soft deleted and might be restored or purged.

After a conflict is reviewed in the Conflict Viewer, the losing record is automatically purged from the database and you cannot restore it. See Conflicts and How They Occur for further details.

Note: Only purge records when all Subscribers are connected to the Publisher. Purging records when disconnected Subscribers are offline might result in hanging links that is links without any entities.

Note: Hanging links can occur when an entity and its links are purged at the Publisher but a disconnected Subscriber modifies one of those links. When the Subscriber connects with the Publisher, the modified link is merged into the publication database but the connecting entity no longer exists.