diff --git a/ledger/src/bank_forks_utils.rs b/ledger/src/bank_forks_utils.rs
index 17412c1801ac68..35c4721bb19fa8 100644
--- a/ledger/src/bank_forks_utils.rs
+++ b/ledger/src/bank_forks_utils.rs
@@ -338,14 +338,6 @@ fn bank_forks_from_snapshot(
             path: bank_snapshot.snapshot_path(),
         })?;
 
-        // If the node crashes before taking the next bank snapshot, the next startup will attempt
-        // to load from the same bank snapshot again.  And if `shrink` has run, the account storage
-        // files that are hard linked in bank snapshot will be *different* than what the bank
-        // snapshot expects.  This would cause the node to crash again.  To prevent that, purge all
-        // the bank snapshots here.  In the above scenario, this will cause the node to load from a
-        // snapshot archive next time, which is safe.
-        snapshot_utils::purge_all_bank_snapshots(&snapshot_config.bank_snapshots_dir);
-
         bank
     };