# Will Duplicati Delete Newly-Ignored Directories?

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/will-duplicati-delete-newly-ignored-directories/12724
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 18, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/will-duplicati-delete-newly-ignored-directories/12724 "2021-07-18T17:42:19Z")
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### Author: ![ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/will-duplicati-delete-newly-ignored-directories/12724/9 "2021-07-25T16:08:31Z")

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Some people might find that the space a backup uses is more than they would like, so trim it back.  
Some of my storage is pay-by-size, and some is fixed-size although one could pay for bigger size.

[Visualize backup data usage](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/visualize-backup-data-usage/6691)  
[Backend quota is close to being exceeded](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/backend-quota-is-close-to-being-exceeded/8002)

Uncheck or exclude doesn’t purge old versions. That’s a manual task with a rather difficult UI, IMO.  
I wonder what to do for a risky maybe rarely-used operation with bad UI, given few dev resources?

I “think” the source folder chooser is implemented with filters, but manual [filters](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appendix-d-filters/) can be dangerous.  
Trying to get them right can be hard, and turning a flaky filter loose to do a purge may risk disaster.

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