Permanently Deleted a Project from Jira, want to recreate with same name & key but can't

Question

I have 2 instances of Jira linked to my account (i.e. two different URLS)

I created a project in Jira 1, but it needs to be in Jira 2. Because I hadn't gotten very far with it in Jira 1, I changed its Name and Key (since I wanted to reuse the name and key it had) and deleted it permanently.

Now attempting to recreate it in Jira 2 and I still get the "A project with this name already exists" and "This key is already in use" -- despite the fact that I changed the project's name & key before deleting it permanently!

Anyone know a workaround??

I can come up with a diff Project Name but I really want to use that same key!

Daniel Ebers · Answer

That depends on if you are on Server or cloud. Also there is some Suggestion open with Atlassian which might prevent re-used even if the project was deleted (at least if there has not changed anything recently - as stated above).

Megan Day · Answer

You have to go into the trash and permanently delete it from there before you can reuse the key.  Deleting it on the UI will still block key reuse.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Yep, on server, you can do it, but you need to mess with the database to fully remove the "hangover" project, and I suspect Cloud is doing the same thing.