diff --git a/lib/tasks/db.rake b/lib/tasks/db.rake
index 9b78b6855..fceb99430 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/db.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/db.rake
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ namespace :db do
    MongoMapper::connection.drop_database(MongoMapper::database.name) 
 
    puts 'Deleting tmp folder...'
-   `rm -rf #{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../../public/uploads/tmp`
+   `rm -rf #{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../../public/uploads/*`
   end
 
   desc 'Purge and seed the current RAILS_ENV database using information from db/seeds.rb'