# Deleting existing folders for items

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/deleting-existing-folders-for-items/39346>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2025, 5:01am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/deleting-existing-folders-for-items/39346 "2025-09-06T05:01:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![karesz2561](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/karesz2561/32/33910_2.png) [@karesz2561](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/karesz2561)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 5:01am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/deleting-existing-folders-for-items/39346/1 "2025-09-06T05:01:42Z")

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Hello!

I previously created folders for Items to make the plan more transparent because I have a lot of parts.

However, now when I want to export the parts with the .step extension, it exports the folders together and not the parts inside separately.

But I can’t find anywhere how to delete folders.

What can I do in such a case to export all the parts at once, but separately?

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**Author:** ![Xdrakosha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/xdrakosha/32/24881_2.png) [@Xdrakosha](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xdrakosha)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/deleting-existing-folders-for-items/39346/2 "2025-09-06T05:55:47Z")

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If understand correctly you want to flattened your folder structure? Then there is one trick:

1. Hide everything.
2. Show all hidden bodies (can be done via menu Item → Show Hidden Bodies)
3. Select them all (only bodies, without sketches and other items) CMD+A will help you.
4. Press the folder icon at the bottom of item list.

That will create one folder with all your bodies. You can select them all using shift and drag them out of the folder. Now if you want to delete all folders you have to merge the history.

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**Author:** ![karesz2561](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/karesz2561/32/33910_2.png) [@karesz2561](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/karesz2561)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 8:14am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/deleting-existing-folders-for-items/39346/3 "2025-09-06T08:14:05Z")

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Thank you, that’s how it works! 🙂