# Tombstone directory not getting cleaned up for images

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tombstone-directory-not-getting-cleaned-up-for-images/106575 "2019-01-15T10:42:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tombstone-directory-not-getting-cleaned-up-for-images/106575/1 "2019-01-15T10:42:52Z")

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I’m not sure I understand correctly how the tombstone cleanup process works. It’s somewhat urgent as my disk is filling up rapidly as we’re reprocessing all our images. We have a lot of them, so this generates many tombstone files.

Here’s my setup:

- `clean up uploads` is enabled
- `clean orphan uploads grace period hours` is set to 48 hours
- `purge deleted uploads grace period days` temporarily set to 2 days (I started reprocessing 4 days ago)

I triggered the `Jobs::CleanUpUploads` job in the Sidekiq scheduler, but nothing happens. What am I missing here?

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