# Problem with Deleting Unwanted Files

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/problem-with-deleting-unwanted-files/22734
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**Created:** [September 27, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/problem-with-deleting-unwanted-files/22734 "2026-09-27T21:57:20Z")
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### Author: ![kmand](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kmand](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/kmand)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/problem-with-deleting-unwanted-files/22734/1 "2026-09-27T21:57:20Z")

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I’m running 2.3.0.3 on Linux. I have a very large backup to OneDrive. I’ve used it for a long time, orignally configured with keep all versions. It takes about 6 hours to run daily although not much is changing, and the versions up above 400. I need to reduce the versions in fact I want to use the smart setting, which is what I set it to hoping to delete a lot of old versions. It get stuck Deleting Unwanted Files. I can see it had done from looking at Trash on OneDrive, but after a while it goes on forever with no activity. Is there anyway to get out of this other than starting from scratch, which I suspect will take days.