# BuilderScript cleanup during extract of archives

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I am working on the [BirdSet](https://huggingface.co/datasets/DBD-research-group/BirdSet) dataset. We recently noticed that after the tar files are downloaded and extracted the size is double, because archives and audio files both remain in the cache folder.

So far i tried to simply extract the files using the provided download manager one by one and deleting the archive path. Which is the behaviour i am looking for. But when doing that the ‘generate\_example’ function fails by reading the just deleted archive.  
So far i have not found a solution that follows this behaviour and doesn’t break streaming.

My question: Is there a simple way to delete the archives as soon as they aren’t needed anymore (after the extraction)?  
This way users would not need double the storage space of the original files.