diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a111669a..44d6955c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -392,7 +392,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64",
  "bytes",
  "clap",
- "directories",
  "figment",
  "futures-util",
  "hmac",
@@ -577,27 +576,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "subtle",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "directories"
-version = "5.0.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9a49173b84e034382284f27f1af4dcbbd231ffa358c0fe316541a7337f376a35"
-dependencies = [
- "dirs-sys",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "dirs-sys"
-version = "0.4.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "520f05a5cbd335fae5a99ff7a6ab8627577660ee5cfd6a94a6a929b52ff0321c"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "option-ext",
- "redox_users",
- "windows-sys 0.48.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ed25519"
 version = "2.2.3"
@@ -1269,17 +1247,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "libredox"
-version = "0.0.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "85c833ca1e66078851dba29046874e38f08b2c883700aa29a03ddd3b23814ee8"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 2.4.2",
- "libc",
- "redox_syscall",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "librocksdb-sys"
 version = "0.16.0+8.10.0"
@@ -1669,12 +1636,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-stream",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "option-ext"
-version = "0.2.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "04744f49eae99ab78e0d5c0b603ab218f515ea8cfe5a456d7629ad883a3b6e7d"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ordered-float"
 version = "2.10.1"
@@ -1987,17 +1948,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags 1.3.2",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "redox_users"
-version = "0.4.4"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a18479200779601e498ada4e8c1e1f50e3ee19deb0259c25825a98b5603b2cb4"
-dependencies = [
- "getrandom",
- "libredox",
- "thiserror",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "regex"
 version = "1.10.3"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 719f4f24..a3707a7c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ tokio = { version = "1.36.0", features = ["fs", "macros", "signal", "sync"] }
 # Used for the http request / response body type for Ruma endpoints used with reqwest
 bytes = "1.5.0"
 http = "0.2.11"
-# Used to find data directory for default db path
-directories = "5.0.1"
 # Used for ruma wrapper
 serde_json = { version = "1.0.113", features = ["raw_value"] }
 # Used for appservice registration files
diff --git a/src/database/mod.rs b/src/database/mod.rs
index 26cb8803..d3edf133 100644
--- a/src/database/mod.rs
+++ b/src/database/mod.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ use crate::{
 };
 use abstraction::{KeyValueDatabaseEngine, KvTree};
 use argon2::{password_hash::SaltString, PasswordHasher, PasswordVerifier};
-use directories::ProjectDirs;
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use lru_cache::LruCache;
 use rand::thread_rng;
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ use ruma::{
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use std::{
     collections::{BTreeMap, HashMap, HashSet},
-    fs::{self, remove_dir_all},
+    fs::{self},
     io::Write,
     mem::size_of,
     path::Path,
@@ -180,18 +179,6 @@ pub struct KeyValueDatabase {
 }
 
 impl KeyValueDatabase {
-    /// Tries to remove the old database but ignores all errors.
-    pub fn try_remove(server_name: &str) -> Result<()> {
-        let mut path = ProjectDirs::from("xyz", "koesters", "conduit")
-            .ok_or_else(|| Error::bad_config("The OS didn't return a valid home directory path."))?
-            .data_dir()
-            .to_path_buf();
-        path.push(server_name);
-        let _ = remove_dir_all(path);
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
     fn check_db_setup(config: &Config) -> Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new(&config.database_path);