Cropping media creates a copy without cropping original

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Hey everyone,

I have around 400 images that I need to crop in WordPress. When I go to Media and select an image, I’m clicking the ‘Edit Image’ button, and cropping it from there. This is working fine, and the website now shows the cropped version. The uncropped images appear to be gone (nowhere to be found within WP Admin) but it’s actually creating copies and not cropping the originals. I can still see the uncropped originals on cPanel. Here is a screenshot from cPanel showing the uncropped originals, and the new versions once I crop an image:

https://preview.redd.it/n7i1xs8bq82d1.png?width=769&format=png&auto=webp&s=d4710a4931cda737344ce559f91f8890354d102d

So now I’ve been trying to remove the older uncropped images I no longer need (or get it to crop the original without making copies). I’ve tried using the ‘Regenerate Thumbnails’ plugin with the *’Delete thumbnail files for old unregistered sizes to free ups server space’* option selected, but this does not remove them.

Does anyone know a way I can either have it crop the originals or know a plugin that can quickly cleanup the old images/thumbnails that are no longer being used by the website after cropping?

I’ve only cropped about 5 out of the 400 images so far, and would like to figure this out before I keep going.

The main reason I ask is I’m running low on space and cropping 400 images will essentially double the size the media will take up on the server if it doesn’t crop the original or delete the original after cropping.

Thanks!

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