How to Prevent Delete Tab

Learn how to prevent users from accidentally deleting important tabs in Google Sheets by using protective measures and backup scripts. This video covers various methods to safeguard your data effectively.

So we have some data that we're working with a spreadsheet file that we have other people working on, but there's a tab here that says, don't delete me. And we do not want anyone else to delete this.

But I'll actually show you how we can do that and a few workarounds for this exact situation. So one interesting thing is we could give access to someone else. And they have edit access and they're going to be able to edit and do everything.

Tab called, don't delete me. I can't edit anything here. And for the purposes of this video, I can't delete. Look, the delete is grayed out. I can only duplicate copy.

that we're gonna write in this video. So we're just gonna write backup up as the function name.

a space called backup space, and a word called backup with a space in quotes and plus new date.

And now the very last line of code we have to do for this backup drive app dot get file by id.

However, we do not want to have to come into this. File, go to the app script and hit run every time.

or formulas. So let's say we have this data on this sheet, we want to work with it and create a dashboard or create some data here.

So we've protected the data in another spreadsheet file with that double import range .

What tab? Let's put the name in plus sheet name .

Our selection to here, add some data .