Title: Disk space usage
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Disk space usage

 *  [ammtek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ammtek/)
 * (@ammtek)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disk-space-usage-3/)
 * Hi, Great Captcha – does exactly what I need, thanks.
    I have a concern about
   gradual increase in disk space used by the tmp folder for the captcha images.
   Does it grow continuously or are the images eventually re-used. If not re-used,
   why store them permanently instead of deleting after verification? Or is there
   an option to clean up folder periodically? Hope someone can help? Thanks, Andy
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 *  [spiritvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spiritvn/)
 * (@spiritvn)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disk-space-usage-3/#post-5948213)
 * It should not be reused, i do the form myself so i can remove the img & txt file
   after they submit.
 * But i also faced the issue that if they dont submit and keep refreshing the page,
   we never know when we should remove the files.
 * So i may need to make a cron job to clear the files in folder after a day… i 
   guess that option also possible for you 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [spiritvn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spiritvn/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disk-space-usage-3/#post-5948213)
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