The phrase "avoid deleting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when instructing someone to refrain from removing or erasing something, such as text or data.
Example: "Please make sure to avoid deleting any important files during the cleanup process."
Alternatives: "refrain from removing" or "steer clear of erasing".
To avoid deleting emails from truly important senders -- like your parents, or kids, or boss -- assign them a unique color, or set up a similar email rule that lets you know at a glance which messages are most likely to be critical.
To make optimal use of our data and avoid deleting information during multivariate analyses, we imputed information on sexual risk behavior that was missing from our questionnaires.
Extensions with other relationships may help to avoid deleting animals incorrectly, when limited numbers of 1st degree genotyped relatives are available.
Secondly, in [36] the authors provide a smart traversal of the search space such that one can avoid deleting sets from S L, i.e., in each step one can decide whether the current candidate is preferred or not, by only using previously computed preferred labelings (see Algorithm 4).
Try to avoid deleting legally shared wikiHow content by accident.
Remove the checkmark from the box next to "SD card" to avoid deleting any personal data from your SD card.
In a statement on Thursday, Ms. Cox said the controversy was greater than the one she had hoped to avoid by deleting the word in the first place.
In addition to repeatedly emphasizing the techniques to avoid accidentally deleting records during the training session, we also adopted the method discussed in the Database Design for Cross-Sectional Dato Analysis section to help prevent incomplete data or data loss that is caused by human errors.
Remove all other insertable storage devices before you begin, to avoid accidentally deleting files.
24 For deletion and insertion mutagenesis, mutagenic primers were designed to avoid the deleted sequence or harbor the inserted sequence, respectively.
Dr. Weissman said undesirable outcomes like a mouse with a brain made of human cells or a mouse that generated human sperm could be avoided by deleting certain genes from the human cells before injecting them into a mouse.
