# How can I delete unused assets ?

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-can-i-delete-unused-assets/44288
**Category:** Beginners
**Created:** [April 16, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-can-i-delete-unused-assets/44288 "2024-04-16T12:10:32Z")
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### Author: ![slaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@slaine](https://discourse.processing.org/u/slaine)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-can-i-delete-unused-assets/44288/1 "2024-04-16T12:10:32Z")

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Hello, I’m Sylvie from France. I’m trying to use P5.js to create digital artworks. My knowledge of code is still basic but I’m learning. Here’s my problem:

Yesterday, I created an account, and uploaded 78 PNG images from my hard drive into a sketch on P5js. I must have forgotten to save my sketch, because the images are no longer attributed to the sketch, but it doesn’t matter, because I hadn’t written anything, it was just a sketch to try out.  
But now I’d like to delete all these assets, which are useless because they’re not assigned to any sketch, to save space, but I can only do that individually! I thought I saw somewhere that I could delete all unused assets at once, but I can’t find it. Am I dreaming? Is there really no way to select all unused assets for deletion?

I’m using Firefox on the Linux Mint operating system.

Thank you very much in advance for your help!

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### Author: ![Reid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/439d5e/32.png) [@Reid](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Reid)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-can-i-delete-unused-assets/44288/2 "2024-04-17T21:09:18Z")

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p5 doesn’t have a built-in way of doing that. I don’t know if you’ve ever run a shell script from the command line, but that would be a way of doing it, using cURL commands to delete each asset programmatically, although that is complicated. If I were you I would delete the whole folder containing the assets(moving all other files in there that you need to another folder) and start it all over if that is possible.

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### Author: ![slaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@slaine](https://discourse.processing.org/u/slaine)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-can-i-delete-unused-assets/44288/3 "2024-04-18T12:05:30Z")

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Thank Reid, I’ll try that!