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Find unpublished drafts of deactivated or unlicensed users as an admin

Lisa Zanini
Contributor
February 17, 2026

Hi There

Recently we've been trying to do some spring cleaning in our Confluence and while using my admin Key to remove unnecessary restrictions on some pages, I noticed, that there were a lot of unpublished drafts around. 
Of course I can ask all my users to go through their unpublished drafts and delete whatever is not needed anymore. But what concerns me more is, that there are also a lot of unpublished drafts of former users that are now inactivated or unlicensed. 
With the admin key I can click through all the page trees of all the spaces we have and try to find all unpublished drafts of former users and delete them, but it's very time consuming and it's unlikely that I will find all of them. 

Is there a better way as an admin to find all unpublished drafts, especially the ones from users who are no longer active and remove them? 

Thanks for your help! 

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Kris Klima _K15t_
Community Champion
February 17, 2026

Hi @Lisa Zanini 

As an admin, you can log in as another user, then try this

https://YOURSITENAMEHERE.atlassian.net/wiki/home/drafts

 

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L B
Contributor
February 17, 2026

Just adding on to this great response--if you don't see the Drafts option below Apps, you will need to click More at the bottom of the sidebar, then click Drafts.
DraftsOption.jpg

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Marc -Devoteam-
Community Champion
February 17, 2026

Hi @Lisa Zanini 

I don't see option on the API to achieve this.

I think the only way is to use the admin key or to inform users.

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