# הסרת ההעלאות המקומיות לאחר ההעברה ל-S3
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-local-uploads-after-s3-migration/357709
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** s3
**Created:** [18 במרץ, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-local-uploads-after-s3-migration/357709 "2025-03-18T07:50:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@tumbano](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tumbano)
#### Post date: [18 במרץ, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-local-uploads-after-s3-migration/357709/1 "2025-03-18T07:50:36Z")
I’ve recently managed to move files to S3 (Contabo object storage) [Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads - #474 by tumbano](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-an-s3-compatible-object-storage-provider-for-uploads/148916/474)
but old local files haven’t been removed. From what I’ve read it should be done automatically (I’ve set Clean orphan uploads to 1 hours and Purge deleted uploads grace period to 1 day) but it isn’t. Also there’s this job “Jobs::CleanUpUploads” in sidekiq marked as FAILED.
Is there a way to safely delete the files or run the job from command line?
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### Author:  [@Mycobee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mycobee)
#### Post date: [18 במרץ, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-local-uploads-after-s3-migration/357709/3 "2025-03-18T22:42:48Z")
I too am experiencing a similar issue. All my uploads are in my bucket, but also on my server in the shared directory 🤔
I just created a new site backup as a test, and it put it in both shared and the s3 bucket
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### Author:  [@tumbano](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tumbano)
#### Post date: [19 במרץ, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-local-uploads-after-s3-migration/357709/4 "2025-03-19T05:26:32Z")
Right, the backup still puts the local uploads folder into the archive, even if it says it doesn’t.
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### Author:  [@tumbano](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tumbano)
#### Post date: [21 במרץ, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-local-uploads-after-s3-migration/357709/5 "2025-03-21T14:54:19Z")
I remember there was an error at the end of the migration process, that some files were not transferred. I didn’t care if a few images out of 80000+ were missing, but who knows, maybe discourse did, so today I tried something that I’ve found on another topic and
```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
VERBOSE=1 rake posts:missing_uploads
```
The result was there were 2 posts with a missing image each and gave me the exact links so I went and edited the posts. After running the command again this time there were no missing files.
With a bit of hope I then tried running rake uploads:migrate\_to\_s3 again, with no luck. This is how it ends
```plaintext
Updating the URLs in the database...
Removing old optimized images...
Flagging all posts containing lightboxes for rebake...
16163 posts were flagged for a rebake
rake aborted!
FileStore::ToS3MigrationError: 4 posts are not remapped to new S3 upload URL. S3 migration failed for db 'default'. (FileStore::ToS3MigrationError)
/var/www/discourse/lib/file_store/to_s3_migration.rb:132:in `raise_or_log'
/var/www/discourse/lib/file_store/to_s3_migration.rb:81:in `migration_successful?'
/var/www/discourse/lib/file_store/to_s3_migration.rb:383:in `migrate_to_s3'
/var/www/discourse/lib/file_store/to_s3_migration.rb:59:in `migrate'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/uploads.rake:126:in `migrate_to_s3'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/uploads.rake:106:in `block in migrate_to_s3_all_sites'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.3.0/gems/rails_multisite-6.1.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management/null_instance.rb:49:in `with_connection'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.3.0/gems/rails_multisite-6.1.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management/null_instance.rb:36:in `each_connection'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.3.0/gems/rails_multisite-6.1.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:21:in `each_connection'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/uploads.rake:104:in `migrate_to_s3_all_sites'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/uploads.rake:100:in `block in '
/usr/local/bin/bundle:25:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:25:in `'
Tasks: TOP => uploads:migrate_to_s3
```