Deleting Ad Groups Permanently

[Anthony Hsu]

Is there a way to delete ad groups permanently, rather than just
marking them as "Deleted"? It's annoying when you try to add an ad
group with the same name as an ad group you've already deleted and
then you get a "This name is already in use." error.

I realize I could just re-enable the deleted ad groups, but then I'd
have to keep track of the Ad Group IDs for the deleted ad groups, or
fetch them using the "getAllAdGroups" service, but it'd be so much
simpler if you could just permanently delete ad groups. Is this
possible? If not, anyone have any other solutions?

-Anthony

[Jan]

On 10 Aug., 17:37, Anthony Hsu <a...@pinkotc.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to delete ad groups permanently, rather than just
> marking them as "Deleted"?

no.

- Jan

[CFJ]

Renaming during deletion does the trick pretty well. Check out this
thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api/browse_thread/thread/331896f2f32ecb78/abbb5907d7e4a62b?hl=en#abbb5907d7e4a62b