# Posso eliminare i caricamenti originali?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-delete-the-original-uploads/110455>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [1 Marzo 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-delete-the-original-uploads/110455 "2019-03-01T19:05:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![sedget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sedget/32/49494_2.png) [@sedget](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sedget)\
**Post date:** [1 Marzo 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-delete-the-original-uploads/110455/1 "2019-03-01T19:05:54Z")

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hello,

I need space and i want to know if i can delete original in upload dir?

I’m not asking for orphan files I’m asking if original guet an optimized version and so that’s allow me to delete them?

```
/var/discourse/shared/standalone/uploads/default# du -h --max-depth=1
3.9G ./original
5.9G ./optimized

```

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