Very large datastore folder on CQ5.5 Author

[thmspl]

The datastore folder of my cq55 author server is very large (~70GB).

What i've done yet:

I made a DataStore Garbage Collection and a tar optimization (With a restart at the end!) but the folder wouldn't get smaller.

What should i do now? How can i clean up this folder?

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

You might have so many references & hence not cleaning. Do below maintenance & does not help then you have so much content. 

• Delete all unwanted
  • Packages
  • Assets
  • Pages
• Purge Version history
• Purge workflows
• Purge audit history
• Run tar optimization
• Run garbage collection.