# Deleting user images when using the rails console to delete users

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**Created:** [20 Dicembre 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-user-images-when-using-the-rails-console-to-delete-users/76497 "2017-12-20T17:24:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [20 Dicembre 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-user-images-when-using-the-rails-console-to-delete-users/76497/4 "2017-12-20T17:30:44Z")

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> [@Frank\_Bailey](#):
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> (Just for my own curiosity, what’d happen if one were to manually delete images from the Tombstone folder?)

It would be deleted and you couldn’t decide later that you want it back. Avatars ain’t that big, so it wouldn’t seem like a huge problem.

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