Google Docs – Bulk Delete Documents in a Collection

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I have a large number (5,000+) of documents in Google Docs and I'd like to delete all of them and/or would like to delete all documents within a collection.

The only native way I see to delete documents is to Ctrl+click highlight them and then delete. This is impractical for large numbers of docs since you'd have to select docs, delete, go to next page, repeat.

This feature seems obvious (to me) and oddly missing, although I also thought the lack of iPhone copy and paste and the inability to search Gmail attachments were obvious features as well.

How do mass delete documents from Google Docs?

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You can move a collection to the bin which also moves all documents within said collection.

On the right side menu, go to the collection you want to delete. Click the arrow that appears and click Move to bin

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Google-drive – How to move a collection into another collection in Google Docs

Figured it out shortly after posting; it turns out the "Organize" menu isn't useless, just unintuitive. To add a collection to another one, choose "Organize" from the right-click menu and then check the collection(s) you want to add it to. If you don't want it to appear as one of the "root" collections, uncheck the "My Collections" item.

I suppose this is actually a better way of doing this than I was thinking, since it allows you to add a collection to as many others as you'd like.

Google-drive – Getting hashes of Google Docs documents

There is an API call, documented in at the link.

md5Checksum: string, An MD5 checksum for the content of this file. This is populated only for files with content stored in Drive.

In java you can retrieve it by adding a line to this java example

 System.out.println("MD5: " + file.getMd5Checksum());

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