# DELETE /api/v2/drive-items/{drive_item}

Archive a drive item

- MCP id: drive-items.destroy
- Scope: api:destroy:project_drive
- Scope: api:destroy:customer_drive
- Scope: api:destroy:organization_drive
- Scope: api:destroy:user_drive
- Permission: project_drive::create
- Rate cost: 1 unit, write bucket.
- Cache-Control: private, no-store

Archives a drive item.

This is plnnrly's Archive action, and it is reversible with `POST /api/v2/drive-items/{drive_item}/actions/restore`. It is a soft delete: the item keeps its body, its comments and its files, and who archived it is recorded in `archived_by`. There is no permanent delete through the API, so `force` is not an accepted parameter. Archiving an already-archived item answers `204` as well, so a retry after a timeout is safe. The declared permission is `project_drive::create`, the same permission as editing and a superset of what the record rule checks: `{owner}_drive::access` plus edit access on the item.

## Parameters
- drive_item (integer, path): The DriveItem's numeric id. Accepts a soft-deleted record.
- X-Request-Id (header, optional): A correlation id of your own. It is recorded in our logs next to the server's request id but never returned: the response header always carries the server's id. A value that does not match the pattern is discarded silently, never rejected.
- If-Match (header, optional): The ETag a write is conditional on. A stale validator is 412 precondition-failed.

## Response 204

## Errors
- 403 forbidden-by-policy | insufficient-permission | insufficient-token-scope: Forbidden.
- 412 precondition-failed: Precondition failed.
- 400 idempotency-key-required | invalid-cursor | invalid-query-parameter | malformed-request | unsupported-parameter: Bad request.
- 401 token-expired | unauthenticated: Unauthenticated.
- 404 endpoint-not-found | resource-not-found: Not found.
- 406 not-acceptable: Not acceptable.
- 429 rate-limit-exceeded: Too many requests.
- 500 internal-error: Server error.
- 503 tenant-unavailable: Service unavailable.

## Example
```bash
curl -X DELETE \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/drive-items/1' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'
```