Hi Jennifer, I too ran into the same problem when I was cleaning up thesaurus terms in the attributes for constituents. Often when you delete an attribute term from a record it will remain linked to the record as inactive. Make sure you right click in the attributes field and select show inactive, then delete the term a second time. It should no longer be linked after it is fully removed. At the moment it seems you will have to bring up the records you previously were deleting the terms from and check that the terms are not still linked to the records as inactive. Does this help? Cheers, Julienne Julienne Pascoe Asst., Collection Information and Resources Art Gallery of Ontario 416.979.6660 x 262 ________________________________ From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jennifer Day Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:15 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Problem deleting terms from thesaurus Forgot to mention that I'm using TMS 2010, in case that has an impact on how to resolve my problem. Jennifer Jennifer Day Registrar, Indian Arts Research Center School for Advanced Research PO Box 2188 Santa Fe, NM 87504 Phone: 505-954-7205 Fax: 505-54-7207 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jennifer Day Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:02 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Problem deleting terms from thesaurus Hello, I am a relatively new TMS user and have recently decided to dive into thesaurus management. For my first task, I am attempting to clean up our very "eccentric" terms, which include many duplicate terms (under Authorities). I have been trying to delete all links to particular terms so I can delete them from the thesaurus entirely, but several times now I have run into this problem: When I try to delete the desired term, it tells me the term is in use 1 time. I can delete all but the one link, but I can't locate the record that is using the term. I have run queries every way I can think of, but I can't find the offending records. I have looked for archived terms, but can't find any of those either. Does anyone have ideas about how I could locate these records? Or if there is something I'm not taking into consideration that I should? Many thanks, Jennifer Jennifer Day Registrar, Indian Arts Research Center School for Advanced Research PO Box 2188 Santa Fe, NM 87504 Phone: 505-954-7205 Fax: 505-54-7207 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>