diff --git a/hepcrawl/spiders/wsp_spider.py b/hepcrawl/spiders/wsp_spider.py
index 3f68131f..d7efaf41 100644
--- a/hepcrawl/spiders/wsp_spider.py
+++ b/hepcrawl/spiders/wsp_spider.py
@@ -77,37 +77,33 @@ def __init__(self, package_path=None, ftp_folder="WSP", ftp_host=None, ftp_netrc
         self.ftp_folder = ftp_folder
         self.ftp_host = ftp_host
         self.ftp_netrc = ftp_netrc
-        self.target_folder = "/tmp/WSP"
+        self.local_tmp_folder = "/tmp/WSP"
         self.package_path = package_path
-        if not os.path.exists(self.target_folder):
-            os.makedirs(self.target_folder)
+        if not os.path.exists(self.local_tmp_folder):
+            os.makedirs(self.local_tmp_folder)
 
     def start_requests(self):
-        """List selected folder on remote FTP and yield new zip files."""
+        """List selected folder on remote FTP and yield zip files."""
         if self.package_path:
-            new_files_paths = local_list_files(
-                self.package_path,
-                self.target_folder
-            )
+            local_files_paths = local_list_files(self.package_path)
 
-            for file_path in new_files_paths:
+            for file_path in local_files_paths:
                 yield Request("file://{0}".format(file_path), callback=self.handle_package_file)
         else:
             ftp_host, ftp_params = ftp_connection_info(self.ftp_host, self.ftp_netrc)
 
-            new_files_paths = ftp_list_files(
+            remote_files_paths = ftp_list_files(
                 self.ftp_folder,
-                self.target_folder,
                 server=ftp_host,
                 user=ftp_params['ftp_user'],
                 password=ftp_params['ftp_password']
             )
 
-            for remote_file in new_files_paths:
+            for remote_file in remote_files_paths:
                 # Cast to byte-string for scrapy compatibility
                 remote_file = str(remote_file)
                 ftp_params["ftp_local_filename"] = os.path.join(
-                    self.target_folder,
+                    self.local_tmp_folder,
                     os.path.basename(remote_file)
                 )
                 remote_url = "ftp://{0}/{1}".format(ftp_host, remote_file)
diff --git a/hepcrawl/utils.py b/hepcrawl/utils.py
index 4ad9db3c..d291d9f1 100644
--- a/hepcrawl/utils.py
+++ b/hepcrawl/utils.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def ftp_connection_info(ftp_host, netrc_file, passive_mode=False):
     return ftp_host, connection_params
 
 
-def ftp_list_files(server_folder, target_folder, server, user, password, passive_mode=False):
+def ftp_list_files(server_folder, server, user, password, passive_mode=False):
     """List files from given FTP's server folder to target folder."""
     session_factory = ftputil.session.session_factory(
         base_class=ftplib.FTP,
@@ -67,23 +67,19 @@ def ftp_list_files(server_folder, target_folder, server, user, password, passive
 
     with ftputil.FTPHost(server, user, password, session_factory=session_factory) as host:
         file_names = host.listdir(os.path.join(host.curdir, '/', server_folder))
-        return list_missing_files(server_folder, target_folder, file_names)
+        return list_files(server_folder, file_names)
 
 
-def local_list_files(local_folder, target_folder):
+def local_list_files(local_folder):
     file_names = os.listdir(local_folder)
-    return list_missing_files(local_folder, target_folder, file_names)
+    return list_files(local_folder, file_names)
 
 
-def list_missing_files(remote_folder, target_folder, file_names):
-    missing_files = []
-    for file_name in file_names:
-        destination_file = os.path.join(target_folder, file_name)
-        source_file = os.path.join(remote_folder, file_name)
-        if not os.path.exists(destination_file):
-            missing_files.append(source_file)
-
-    return missing_files
+def list_files(remote_folder, file_names):
+    return [
+        os.path.join(remote_folder, file_name)
+        for file_name in file_names
+    ]
 
 
 def get_first(iterable, default=None):
diff --git a/tests/functional/wsp/test_wsp.py b/tests/functional/wsp/test_wsp.py
index a97f77ef..ba88b9f8 100644
--- a/tests/functional/wsp/test_wsp.py
+++ b/tests/functional/wsp/test_wsp.py
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ def set_up_ftp_environment():
         }
     }
 
-    clean_dir()
     clean_dir(path=os.path.join(os.getcwd(), '.scrapy'))