topic What to do if I accidentally deleted Delta log directory in Data Engineering https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-to-do-if-i-accidentally-deleted-delta-log-directory/m-p/17985#M11877 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:57:59 GMT brickster_2018 2021-06-25T22:57:59Z What to do if I accidentally deleted Delta log directory https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-to-do-if-i-accidentally-deleted-delta-log-directory/m-p/17985#M11877 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:57:59 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-to-do-if-i-accidentally-deleted-delta-log-directory/m-p/17985#M11877 brickster_2018 2021-06-25T22:57:59Z Re: What to do if I accidentally deleted Delta log directory https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-to-do-if-i-accidentally-deleted-delta-log-directory/m-p/17986#M11878 <P>Deleting the Delta log directory would cause you to lose the underlying transaction history on the delta table and other delta related optimizations. In effect the table would be converted to a Parquet table at that point</P> Fri, 25 Jun 2021 23:00:10 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-to-do-if-i-accidentally-deleted-delta-log-directory/m-p/17986#M11878 aladda 2021-06-25T23:00:10Z