diff --git a/backend/subscriptions.js b/backend/subscriptions.js
index ee0ff7b..b957d68 100644
--- a/backend/subscriptions.js
+++ b/backend/subscriptions.js
@@ -139,17 +139,10 @@ async function unsubscribe(sub, deleteMode, user_uid = null) {
 
     const appendedBasePath = getAppendedBasePath(sub, basePath);
     if (deleteMode && (await fs.pathExists(appendedBasePath))) {
-        if (sub.archive && (await fs.pathExists(sub.archive))) {
-            const archive_file_path = path.join(sub.archive, 'archive.txt');
-            // deletes archive if it exists
-            // TODO: Keep entries in blacklist_video.txt by moving them to a global blacklist
-            if (await fs.pathExists(archive_file_path)) {
-                await fs.unlink(archive_file_path);
-            }
-            await fs.rmdir(sub.archive);
-        }
         await fs.remove(appendedBasePath);
     }
+
+    await db_api.removeAllRecords('archives', {sub_id: sub.id});
 }
 
 async function deleteSubscriptionFile(sub, file, deleteForever, file_uid = null, user_uid = null) {
diff --git a/backend/utils.js b/backend/utils.js
index b5e460f..f634b41 100644
--- a/backend/utils.js
+++ b/backend/utils.js
@@ -220,51 +220,6 @@ function deleteJSONFile(file_path, type) {
     if (fs.existsSync(alternate_json_path)) fs.unlinkSync(alternate_json_path);
 }
 
-// archive helper functions
-
-async function removeIDFromArchive(archive_path, type, id) {
-    const archive_file = path.join(archive_path, `archive_${type}.txt`);
-    const data = await fs.readFile(archive_file, {encoding: 'utf-8'});
-    if (data === null || data === undefined) {
-        logger.error('Archive could not be found.');
-        return;
-    }
-
-    let dataArray = data.split('\n'); // convert file data in an array
-    const searchKeyword = id; // we are looking for a line, contains, key word id in the file
-    let foundLine = dataArray.find(line => line.includes(searchKeyword));
-
-    dataArray = dataArray.filter(line => !line.includes(searchKeyword));
-
-    if (!foundLine) return null;
-    else foundLine = foundLine.trim();
-
-    // UPDATE FILE WITH NEW DATA
-    const updatedData = dataArray.join('\n');
-    await fs.writeFile(archive_file, updatedData);
-    if (foundLine) return Array.isArray(foundLine) && foundLine.length === 1 ? foundLine[0] : foundLine;
-}
-
-async function writeToBlacklist(archive_folder, type, line) {
-    let blacklistPath = path.join(archive_folder, (type === 'audio') ? 'blacklist_audio.txt' : 'blacklist_video.txt');
-    // adds newline to the beginning of the line
-    line.replace('\n', '');
-    line.replace('\r', '');
-    line = '\n' + line;
-    await fs.appendFile(blacklistPath, line);
-}
-
-async function deleteFileFromArchive(uid, type, archive_path, id, blacklistMode) {
-    const archive_file = path.join(archive_path, `archive_${type}.txt`);
-    if (await fs.pathExists(archive_path)) {
-        const line = id ? await removeIDFromArchive(archive_path, type, id) : null;
-        if (blacklistMode && line) await writeToBlacklist(archive_path, type, line);
-    } else {
-        logger.info(`Could not find archive file for file ${uid}. Creating...`);
-        await fs.close(await fs.open(archive_file, 'w'));
-    }
-}
-
 function durationStringToNumber(dur_str) {
     if (typeof dur_str === 'number') return dur_str;
     let num_sum = 0;
@@ -564,9 +519,6 @@ module.exports = {
     getExpectedFileSize: getExpectedFileSize,
     fixVideoMetadataPerms: fixVideoMetadataPerms,
     deleteJSONFile: deleteJSONFile,
-    removeIDFromArchive: removeIDFromArchive,
-    writeToBlacklist: writeToBlacklist,
-    deleteFileFromArchive: deleteFileFromArchive,
     getDownloadedFilesByType: getDownloadedFilesByType,
     createContainerZipFile: createContainerZipFile,
     durationStringToNumber: durationStringToNumber,