How do I delete repositories or projects in Bitbucket if I am not an administrator?

Yasuyuki Hamada

Hi.

I have one project containing some repositories in Bitbucket but am just a member of it. The administrator has lost the access, and the email address he used to create his account is no longer valid. He tried to access there using his new email address but saw the message saying "Resource not found".

In this case, how can I delete the repositories and project?

Thank you,

Yasuyuki

Theodora Boudale

Hi Yasuyuki and welcome to the community!

Only a user that has admin access to a repository can delete it. There is no way for non-admins to delete a repo.

The message "Resource not found" is displayed when the account one logs in with doesn't have access to the workspace or the workspace doesn't exist.

The administrator will need to log in with the email address of the account that is an admin of the workspace. If he doesn't remember the password, he can request a password reset email, but he'll need to regain access to the email address to receive the password reset email:

• https://id.atlassian.com/login/resetpassword

Even if he does remember the password, we may require that he completes an extra step of security to protect his account with a one-time passcode, which we send via email. So, access to the Bitbucket account's primary email address is necessary.

Alternatively, if the admin happens to have saved somewhere an app password for his account with Repositories - Delete permission, or a repository access token with this permission, he could run an API call with curl from his machine to delete a repo:

• https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/bitbucket/rest/api-group-repositories/#api-repositories-workspace-repo-slug-delete

His username will also be needed if he uses authentication with an app password.

Kind regards,
Theodora