diff --git a/src/store.ts b/src/store.ts
index 1b4714958..b9f467eaf 100644
--- a/src/store.ts
+++ b/src/store.ts
@@ -871,25 +871,47 @@ export default class IndexedFormula extends Formula { // IN future - allow pass
   }
 
   /**
-   * Removes all statements in a doc, along with the related metadata including request/response
+   * Removes all metadata
    * @param doc - The document / graph
    */
-  removeDocument(doc: Quad_Graph): IndexedFormula {
-    const meta = this.sym('chrome://TheCurrentSession') // or this.rdfFactory.namedNode('chrome://TheCurrentSession')
-    const linkNamespaceURI = 'http://www.w3.org/2007/ont/link#' // alain
-    // remove request/response and metadata
-    const requests = this.statementsMatching(undefined, this.sym(`${linkNamespaceURI}requestedURI`), this.rdfFactory.literal(doc.value), meta).map(st => st.subject)
+  removeMetadata(doc: Quad_Graph): IndexedFormula {
+    // temporary until the issue on COLLECTION is resolved see https://github.com/linkeddata/rdflib.js/issues/631
+    const meta = this.fetcher?.appNode // this.sym('chrome://TheCurrentSession')
+    const linkNamespaceURI = 'http://www.w3.org/2007/ont/link#'
+    const kb = this
+    // removeMatches() --> removeMany() --> remove() fails on Collection
+    function removeBySubject (subject) {
+      const sts = kb.statementsMatching(subject, null, null, meta)
+      // console.log(sts)
+      for (var i = 0; i < sts.length; i++) {
+        kb.removeStatement(sts[i])
+      }
+    }
+    const requests = this.statementsMatching(null, this.sym(`${linkNamespaceURI}requestedURI`), this.rdfFactory.literal(doc.value), meta).map(st => st.subject)
     for (var r = 0; r < requests.length; r++) {
       const request = requests[r]
-      if (request !== undefined) {
-        this.removeMatches(request, null, null, meta)
+      if (request != null) { // null or undefined
         const response = this.any(request, this.sym(`${linkNamespaceURI}response`), null, meta) as Quad_Subject
-        if (response !== undefined) { // ts
-          this.removeMatches(response, null, null, meta)
+        // console.log('REQUEST ' + request.value)
+        removeBySubject(request)
+        if (response != null) { // null or undefined
+          // console.log('RESPONSE ' + response.value)
+          removeBySubject(response)
         }
       }
     }
-    this.removeMatches(this.sym(doc.value), null, null, meta) // content-type
+    // console.log('DOCTYPE ' + doc.value)
+    removeBySubject(doc)
+    return this
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Removes all statements in a doc, along with the related metadata including request/response
+   * @param doc - The document / graph
+   */
+  removeDocument(doc: Quad_Graph): IndexedFormula {
+    // remove request/response and metadata
+    this.removeMetadata(doc)
 
     // remove document
     var sts: Quad[] = this.statementsMatching(undefined, undefined, undefined, doc).slice() // Take a copy as this is the actual index
diff --git a/tests/unit/update-manager-test.js b/tests/unit/update-manager-test.js
index 9320e6519..d0dff1342 100644
--- a/tests/unit/update-manager-test.js
+++ b/tests/unit/update-manager-test.js
@@ -223,6 +223,17 @@ describe('UpdateManager', () => {
       expect(updater.editable(doc1)).to.equal(undefined)
     })
 
+    it('Should not detect a document is editable from metadata after removeMetadata', () => {
+      loadMeta(updater.store)
+      updater.store.removeMetadata(doc1)
+      expect(updater.editable(doc1)).to.equal(undefined)
+    })
+
+    it('Should not detect a document is editable from metadata after removeDocument', () => {
+      loadMeta(updater.store)
+      updater.store.removeDocument(doc1)
+      expect(updater.editable(doc1)).to.equal(undefined)
+    })
 
     it('Async version should detect a document is editable from metadata', async () => {
       loadMeta(updater.store)
@@ -233,13 +244,9 @@ describe('UpdateManager', () => {
 
     it('Async version should not detect a document is editable from metadata after flush', async () => {
       loadMeta(updater.store)
-
       expect(updater.editable(doc1)).to.equal('SPARQL')
-
       updater.flagAuthorizationMetadata()
-
       const result = await updater.checkEditable(doc1)
-
       expect(result).to.equal(undefined)
     })