# How many days before Kopia drops unreferenced blobs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [July 11, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/how-many-days-before-kopia-drops-unreferenced-blobs/1264 "2022-07-11T17:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![basldfalksjdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@basldfalksjdf](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/basldfalksjdf)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/how-many-days-before-kopia-drops-unreferenced-blobs/1264/1 "2022-07-11T17:31:12Z")
I looked through the documentation, the forums, and the source code, but I could not find an answer to this question. I am sure it is there somewhere, and I just missed it. Does anyone know, how many days before Kopia drops unreferenced blobs during full maintenance? ---
**Author:** ![Matthew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/matthew/32/418_2.png) [@Matthew](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/Matthew)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/how-many-days-before-kopia-drops-unreferenced-blobs/1264/2 "2022-07-14T10:28:33Z")
Should be just a day I think…just to give other computers that may be backing up to the same repository a chance to keep the data. ---
**Author:** ![basldfalksjdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@basldfalksjdf](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/basldfalksjdf)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/how-many-days-before-kopia-drops-unreferenced-blobs/1264/3 "2022-07-14T15:23:48Z")
Okay, just realized, Kopia will only remove deleted items once all retained snapshots no longer reference it. That’s why it took several days for blobs to be delete for me. Nothing to see here folks, my bad.