diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/remote/RemoteModule.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/remote/RemoteModule.java
index d5f9a1485a21d1..c3489dd730d98d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/remote/RemoteModule.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/remote/RemoteModule.java
@@ -747,14 +747,6 @@ public void afterCommand() throws AbruptExitException {
       logger.atWarning().withCause(e).log(failureMessage);
     }
 
-    try {
-      deleteDownloadedInputs();
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      failure = e;
-      failureCode = Code.DOWNLOADED_INPUTS_DELETION_FAILURE;
-      failureMessage = "Failed to delete downloaded inputs";
-    }
-
     buildEventArtifactUploaderFactoryDelegate.reset();
     repositoryRemoteExecutorFactoryDelegate.reset();
     remoteDownloaderSupplier.set(null);
@@ -768,30 +760,6 @@ public void afterCommand() throws AbruptExitException {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Delete any input files that have been fetched from the remote cache during the build. This is
-   * so that Bazel's view of the output base is identical with the output base after a build i.e.
-   * files that Bazel thinks exist only remotely actually do.
-   */
-  private void deleteDownloadedInputs() throws IOException {
-    if (actionInputFetcher == null) {
-      return;
-    }
-    IOException deletionFailure = null;
-    for (Path file : actionInputFetcher.downloadedFiles()) {
-      try {
-        file.delete();
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        logger.atSevere().withCause(e).log(
-            "Failed to delete remote output '%s' from the output base.", file);
-        deletionFailure = e;
-      }
-    }
-    if (deletionFailure != null) {
-      throw deletionFailure;
-    }
-  }
-
   private void closeRpcLogFile() throws IOException {
     if (rpcLogFile != null) {
       AsynchronousFileOutputStream oldLogFile = rpcLogFile;
diff --git a/src/test/shell/bazel/remote/remote_execution_test.sh b/src/test/shell/bazel/remote/remote_execution_test.sh
index 2724c6110861ca..dce00f2b848d26 100755
--- a/src/test/shell/bazel/remote/remote_execution_test.sh
+++ b/src/test/shell/bazel/remote/remote_execution_test.sh
@@ -1011,8 +1011,8 @@ EOF
   [[ $(< ${localtxt}) == "remotelocal" ]] \
   || fail "Unexpected contents in " ${localtxt} ": " $(< ${localtxt})
 
-  (! [[ -f bazel-bin/a/remote.txt ]]) \
-  || fail "Expected bazel-bin/a/remote.txt to have been deleted again"
+  [[ -f bazel-bin/a/remote.txt ]] \
+  || fail "Expected bazel-bin/a/remote.txt to be downloaded"
 }
 
 function test_download_outputs_invalidation() {
@@ -1105,8 +1105,8 @@ EOF
   [[ $(< ${outtxt}) == "Hello buchgr!" ]] \
   || fail "Unexpected contents in "${outtxt}":" $(< ${outtxt})
 
-  (! [[ -f bazel-bin/a/template.txt ]]) \
-  || fail "Expected bazel-bin/a/template.txt to have been deleted again"
+  [[ -f bazel-bin/a/template.txt ]] \
+  || fail "Expected bazel-bin/a/template.txt to be downloaded"
 }
 
 function test_downloads_toplevel() {