Hello there :)

I have differently coloured coatings for my products and set these up as attributes. Sometimes one of those goes out of production at my suppliers and sometimes a new one comes (depending on the overall demand). 

Now the coating "coral" went out of production. I deleted every variant, even of archived products, using this attribute, but still I get this message: 

"You cannot delete value Coating color: coral because it was used in some products."

OMG! The attributes is set to automatic creation. I have to delete this, otherwise more and more false variants will be created in the future. This attribute has around 30 values and is combined with others. 

Is there any way to remove it? Or archive it? Otherwise it will get worse and worse every year!