diff --git a/dmp-backend/dataverseRepository/src/main/java/eu/eudat/depositinterface/dataverserepository/interfaces/DataverseDeposit.java b/dmp-backend/dataverseRepository/src/main/java/eu/eudat/depositinterface/dataverserepository/interfaces/DataverseDeposit.java
index 377847e58..1dc6264bf 100644
--- a/dmp-backend/dataverseRepository/src/main/java/eu/eudat/depositinterface/dataverserepository/interfaces/DataverseDeposit.java
+++ b/dmp-backend/dataverseRepository/src/main/java/eu/eudat/depositinterface/dataverserepository/interfaces/DataverseDeposit.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package eu.eudat.depositinterface.dataverserepository.interfaces;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.researchspace.dataverse.api.v1.DataverseAPI;
 import com.researchspace.dataverse.api.v1.DataverseConfig;
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ import eu.eudat.depositinterface.dataverserepository.config.ConfigLoader;
 import eu.eudat.depositinterface.models.DMPDepositModel;
 import eu.eudat.depositinterface.repository.RepositoryDeposit;
 import eu.eudat.depositinterface.repository.RepositoryDepositConfiguration;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
@@ -94,6 +97,12 @@ public class DataverseDeposit implements RepositoryDeposit {
             Map<String, Object> datasetJson = this.getDatasetIdentifier(dmpDepositModel.getPreviousDOI());
             Identifier id = new Identifier();
             id.setId(((Integer) datasetJson.get("id")).longValue());
+            JsonNode jsonNode = this.objectMapper.readTree(new JSONObject(datasetJson).toString());
+            List<JsonNode> files = jsonNode.findValues("dataFile");
+            for(JsonNode file: files){
+                int fileId = file.get("id").asInt();
+                this.deleteFile(fileId);
+            }
 
             this.uploadFiles(dmpDepositModel, dmpDepositModel.getPreviousDOI());
 
@@ -107,6 +116,23 @@ public class DataverseDeposit implements RepositoryDeposit {
 
     }
 
+    private void deleteFile(int fileId){
+        HttpHeaders headers = this.createBasicAuthHeaders(this.configLoader.getDataverseConfig().getApiToken(), "");
+        String serverUrl = this.configLoader.getDataverseConfig().getServer() + "/dvn/api/data-deposit/v1.1/swordv2/edit-media/file/" + fileId;
+        RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
+        restTemplate.exchange(serverUrl, HttpMethod.DELETE, new HttpEntity<>(headers), Object.class);
+    }
+
+    private HttpHeaders createBasicAuthHeaders(String username, String password) {
+        return new HttpHeaders() {{
+            String auth = username + ":" + password;
+            byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.getEncoder().encode(
+                    auth.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+            String authHeader = "Basic " + new String(encodedAuth);
+            set("Authorization", authHeader);
+        }};
+    }
+
     private void uploadFiles(DMPDepositModel dmpDepositModel, String doi) throws IOException {
         this.uploadFile(dmpDepositModel.getPdfFileName(), dmpDepositModel.getPdfFile(), doi);