diff --git a/lib/tasks/attachment_maintaining_service.rake b/lib/tasks/attachment_maintaining_service.rake
index 5b2229d1ab23bf4ffe3b10418208cd257f4449e0..096302f3ea09d60dcfb64dd7615b898ddc95044a 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/attachment_maintaining_service.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/attachment_maintaining_service.rake
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
+require 'fileutils'
+
   namespace :attachment_maintaining_service do
     desc 'Removing 10 attachments'
     task remove_attachments: :environment do
       m = sort_directories.first(10)
       m.each do |mm|
-        rmdir(mm)
+        puts (mm)
+        FileUtils.rm_r(mm)
       end
     end