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# One thing to try: delete unused collections
- URL: https://news1.aap.quest/one-thing-to-try-delete-unused-collections/
- Published: 2026-10-30T07:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-02T23:37:03.000Z
- Description: One reader cut an EE from 2.1 GB to 640 MB.
- Author: navid
- Tags: Issue 4, #fake-sample

List the collections in your main EE. Next to each, write a playbook that uses it.

Delete the ones with nothing next to them.

Smaller images start faster. That reader's job start time went from 40 seconds to 9.

> The fastest collection is the one you didn't install.