# Remove setup directory agent old version
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-setup-directory-agent-old-version/330244
**Category:** Elastic Security
**Created:** [April 18, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-setup-directory-agent-old-version/330244 "2023-04-18T18:27:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@GKre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GKre)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-setup-directory-agent-old-version/330244/1 "2023-04-18T18:27:11Z")
Hello,
due to the wonderfull help inside this forum i come more and more into the system and i really like what i learn and see.
I had the problem that upgrade of the agent to 8.7.0 did not work like expected.
So i checked the forum and other sources.
I found out that i need to download the archive, extract and move it to the installed agent data directory.
Than i needed to rename it to elastic-agent-fc4a15. This seems to be the name for 8.7.0.
This info had been shown with elastic-agent upgrade --help.
Well - finally igot the update installed - just needed to call the running agent in the above directory with elastic-agent upgrade 8.7.0.
What i wonder is, if i can delete the "old" directory or even both of the install directories in the data folder?
on linux it is about 1G of data.
Any help with this?
Can i delete the directories in data after upgrading the agent?
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### Author:  [@GKre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GKre)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-setup-directory-agent-old-version/330244/2 "2023-04-18T18:33:44Z")
... but - myabe i made a misstake.
Can it be that the upgrade 8.7.0 is only starting the upgrade from scratch?
i can see in the log that the source had been downloaded again?
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### Author:  [@GKre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GKre)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-setup-directory-agent-old-version/330244/3 "2023-04-19T07:35:05Z")
well my thoughts were to complicated 😉
The root problem was:
- Agent update via fleet management failed.
The simple solution was:
- go on the client
- call elastic-agent upgrade 8.7.0
- wait until finished
- restart agent
- wait for fleet to get the new version
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-setup-directory-agent-old-version/330244/4 "2023-05-17T07:35:39Z")
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