Permanently deleting an entry from persistant storage

[soubhikchatterjee]

I am using nedb in one of my projects. It seems to be matching my needs so far. I see one issue though, when trying to delete a record, instead of deleting the entire record, it does a partial deletion. i.e. it deletes the record and adds $$deleted: true.

{"$$deleted":true,"_id":"5ff56dece70e4d331ca9d724"}

Can the record be deleted permanently?

This is my code:

  db.remove({ name: doc.name }, {}, function (err, numRemoved) {
        // numRemoved = 1
      });

[jampy]

you can manually call compactDatafile(), read https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb#persistence

[RickyKongCoder]

actually I have tried run compactDatafile() in callback of db.remove but still not works. the function has no effect