# Strange amount of data in the trash

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/strange-amount-of-data-in-the-trash/29714>\
**Category:** troubleshooting\
**Tags:** windows-gui, trash\
**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/strange-amount-of-data-in-the-trash/29714 "2025-04-07T06:50:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pcresumen](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/pcresumen/32/1122_2.png) [@pcresumen](https://forum.storj.io/u/pcresumen)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/strange-amount-of-data-in-the-trash/29714/1 "2025-04-07T06:50:35Z")

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Good morning,

Today, when I started checking the nodes, I found one of them had stopped receiving data. I connected to it and saw that the “trash” was at 2 Exabytes. I don’t see anything unusual in the logs. There certainly isn’t that much data…

 ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/a/f/af3b848b8e58a4b5fea54c7ce684574c2141fd54.png)

The first step I took was to restart the node and run a scan to see if that fixes it, but it will take a few hours to see if that fixes it. If it doesn’t, how can I fix it?

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**Author:** ![Vadim](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/vadim/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Vadim](https://forum.storj.io/u/Vadim)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/strange-amount-of-data-in-the-trash/29714/2 "2025-04-07T07:00:10Z")

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When i had this problem, only fix that helped, i deleted databases and catch.

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**Author:** ![pcresumen](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/pcresumen/32/1122_2.png) [@pcresumen](https://forum.storj.io/u/pcresumen)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/strange-amount-of-data-in-the-trash/29714/3 "2025-04-07T07:06:50Z")

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Which ones would you delete? (I understand that it’s not necessary to delete all of them.)

 ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/2/3/23c52d1f456ee6ec5b8e906f0288fd247c486cd1.png)

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**Author:** ![Vadim](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/vadim/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Vadim](https://forum.storj.io/u/Vadim)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:18am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/strange-amount-of-data-in-the-trash/29714/4 "2025-04-07T07:18:52Z")

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First i moved all of them. Then starded new ones. then stop node and copied all back exept storage\_used and used\_space\_per\_prefix

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**Author:** ![pcresumen](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/pcresumen/32/1122_2.png) [@pcresumen](https://forum.storj.io/u/pcresumen)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/strange-amount-of-data-in-the-trash/29714/5 "2025-04-07T07:34:59Z")

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Thanks so much @Vadim, the data is coming back. Now I just need to run the scan and get everything back in order.