Yes, I am doing something wrong. I needed to navigate to 'Datastore Admin' instead of 'Datastore Viewer'. The admin pages allows you to delete everything quickly. The viewer page only allows you to delete in chunks of 20.
From: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/entities.html Deleting Entities in Bulk via the Admin Console You can use the Datastore Admin tab of the Admin Console to delete all entities of a kind, or all entities of all kinds, in the default namespace. To enable this feature, simply include the datastore_admin builtin handler in app.yaml: builtins: - datastore_admin: on Adding this builtin enables the Datastore Admin screen in the Data section of the Admin Console. From this screen, you can select the entity kind(s) to delete individually or in bulk, and delete them using the Delete Entities button. Warning! Deleting entities in bulk happens within your application, and thus counts against your quota. This feature is currently experimental. We believe this feature is currently the fastest way to bulk-delete data, but it is not yet stable and you may encounter occasional bugs. Thanks for the help guys! Cheers, Nathan On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Nathan VanHoudnos <nathan...@gmail.com>wrote: > I tried that again this morning, but it only lets me delete 20 at a time. > Am I doing something wrong? > > (I have hundreds of entries to delete.) > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:35 PM, howesc <how...@umich.edu> wrote: > >> if i remember correctly the bulk delete was google's christmas present to >> us - in the decemeber release, so it's a new feature, but quite handy! >> > > > > -- > Nathan VanHoudnos > |- Statistics & Public Policy PhD student > |- Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER) Fellowship > |- Carnegie Mellon University > |- http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nmv > > "Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, > since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other > sciences or the things of this world." -- Roger Bacon > -- Nathan VanHoudnos |- Statistics & Public Policy PhD student |- Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER) Fellowship |- Carnegie Mellon University |- http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nmv "Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world." -- Roger Bacon
