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alias: user-guide-terminate-asset-directory
description: "Terminate an asset directory, ensuring no referencing assets exist beforehand"
---

# Terminate Asset Directory

:lock: AssetDirectory.**Terminate**

## Overview

This operation is used to terminate an **Asset Directory**.  

## Setup

No specific setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

## Preconditions

* The IoT Data Platform module is properly licensed in the system.
* The **Asset Directory** exists in the system and it is Active or Created.
* There is no active **Asset** referencing this **Asset Directory**.

## Sequence of Steps

The Terminate Asset Directory wizard can be called from the **Asset Directory** page within the **Data Platform** menu.

### Step 1: General Data

1. Select the **Asset Directory** from the dropdown box on the left side of the screen.
2. Select **Terminate** to perform the operation. All generic/smart table rows that reference the current object will be removed and will not be recovered if the object is unterminated at a later point.

![terminate_asset_directory][terminate_asset_directory]

[terminate_asset_directory]: images/terminate_asset_directory.png

!!! info
	  For more information on unterminating an object, see [[user-guide-terminate-and-unterminate]].