diff --git a/scripts/copy_buildsync.sh b/scripts/copy_buildsync.sh
index 78cc1653..f7f9a3df 100755
--- a/scripts/copy_buildsync.sh
+++ b/scripts/copy_buildsync.sh
@@ -236,8 +236,10 @@ process_arch() {
 				| xargs -n1 --no-run-if-empty readlink -f
 		done >"${_dead}"
 		if test -s "${_dead}"; then
-				echo "copy_buildsync: dead latest*txt files to verify:" 1>&2
-				cat "${_dead}" 1>&2
+				echo "copy_buildsync: removing dead latest*txt files:" 1>&2
+				foreach txtfil in $(cat "${_dead}") ; do
+					rm -v "${txtfil}" 1>&2
+				done
 		fi
 
 		# Cleanup tmpdir