# Cleanup after deletion of \*.urp or \*.installation files

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/cleanup-after-deletion-of-urp-or-installation-files/13873>\
**Category:** Report a Bug\
**Tags:** machine-tending\
**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/cleanup-after-deletion-of-urp-or-installation-files/13873 "2021-04-23T07:01:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anon14470933](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@anon14470933](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon14470933)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/cleanup-after-deletion-of-urp-or-installation-files/13873/1 "2021-04-23T07:01:54Z")

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When a user deletes either \*.urp or \*.installation files the \*.txt, \*.script, and \*.variables files are still present on the controller. Should be fairly simple to do a better job cleaning up.

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**Author:** ![anon507564](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@anon507564](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon507564)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/cleanup-after-deletion-of-urp-or-installation-files/13873/2 "2021-04-23T12:51:37Z")

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100% agree.

First time I set the filter to all files I almost crapped my pants from how much junk was in that folder.

That you can only select one file at a time to delete made the difference between manually cleaning up the folder and saying “screw it” and setting the filter back to .urp and ignoring the glaring mess.

🤪

:edit: I just did a count… I have less than 25 actual robot programs in the TP and OVER 400 files in the folder.

Absolute madness!

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**Author:** ![anon1947322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@anon1947322](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon1947322)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/cleanup-after-deletion-of-urp-or-installation-files/13873/3 "2021-04-26T12:56:28Z")

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I Totally agree having a ur5e and programming it to see what activities it can do within our workplace, creates a lot of redundant variables, in which we go through and manually delete the ones which isn’t being used, so then we don’t have to rename them due to a old variable from a different program still within the system

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**Author:** ![anon507564](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@anon507564](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon507564)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/cleanup-after-deletion-of-urp-or-installation-files/13873/4 "2021-04-26T13:35:43Z")

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I have two UR10e’s to tend CNC machines and I am constantly doing new parts which means new programs which means more mess in the folder. From the looks of the file names I would guess it creates new backup every time you hit save. I haven’t taken the time to test it but may at some point.

This is a real issue and needs to be addressed.

Filling up a hard drive with data is not good for performance nor health of the system.