{"id":744,"date":"2024-05-07T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/how-to-remove-the-backed-up-images-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:44:24","password":"","slug":"how-to-remove-the-backed-up-images-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-to-remove-the-backed-up-images-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove the backed up images on WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To remove the original files saved by <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shortpixel-image-optimiser\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ShortPixel Image Optimizer<\/a> when optimizing the images of your website, go to your WordPress dashboard, and then\u00a0<strong>Settings > ShortPixel > Tools<\/strong>. At the bottom of this tab you will find a &#8220;<strong>Remove backups<\/strong>&#8221; button. Use it to remove all the saved original files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/file-aqgg41jRsC.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another option is to use an FTP client (like <a href=\"https:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filezilla<\/a>)\u00a0or your hosting&#8217;s file manager: Go to the path <code>\/wp-content\/uploads\/ShortpixelBackups\/<\/code>\u00a0and remove all files from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note that you can also move all files from this folder to a local storage<\/strong> (e.g. your computer). If you ever need to restore the backup in the future, you can upload the same files and folders to your website again under\u00a0<strong>the same path<\/strong>, and ShortPixel will be able to use them again.<em><br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To remove the original files saved by ShortPixel Image Optimizer when optimizing the images of your website, go to your WordPress dashboard, and then\u00a0Settings > ShortPixel > Tools. At the bottom of this tab you will find a &#8220;Remove backups&#8221; button. Use it to remove all the saved original files. Another option is to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[37],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-744","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-image-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":133,"total_views":"2884","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"ShortPixel Image Optimizer","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-image-optimizer\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/744\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}