# How to remove unused labels

**URL:** <https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/how-to-remove-unused-labels/1943>\
**Category:** 🤝  Community Help\
**Created:** [April 18, 2023, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/how-to-remove-unused-labels/1943 "2023-04-18T07:04:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Alberto](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/alberto/32/1689_2.png) [@Alberto](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Alberto)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/how-to-remove-unused-labels/1943/1 "2023-04-18T07:04:29Z")

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I have a problem to generate a dataset, and it seems this happens because a class name has non-English characters. Nevertheless, this class is unused, so I need to remove it. I haven’t found any way to do it.

I would appreciate your help with this.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Mohamed](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/mohamed/32/62_2.png) [@Mohamed](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Mohamed)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/how-to-remove-unused-labels/1943/2 "2023-04-19T05:54:20Z")

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For others that see this - this post is related to this one:

> [@Generating new dataset version leave images empty](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/generating-new-dataset-version-leave-images-empty/1572):
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> This category is for question related to accounts on [https://app.roboflow.com/](https://app.roboflow.com/) Please share the following so we may better assist you: Project type: Object detection MacOS 13.1 & Chrome 109.0.5414.119

The post above from @Alberto is continued for discussion here:

> [@Problem when generating a dataset](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/problem-when-generating-a-dataset/1936):
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> Hello, I have a problem when generating a dataset from my labelled images. I follow the steps, although after the proccess finishes, the page says: 1277 images (what it should have), Nevertheless, when I click on “view all images”, it says " This version is empty. Upload or select images and annotations from your library to continue.". And when I download the dataset, only two .txt are in the .zip file, no image at all (not even the folder stucture of YOLO). I found similar problems: [Generat…](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/generating-new-dataset-version-leave-images-empty/1572)