diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/models/StoredFile.php b/airtime_mvc/application/models/StoredFile.php
index b4f6bffa6..a45e63e99 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/models/StoredFile.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/models/StoredFile.php
@@ -387,10 +387,8 @@ SQL;
         //try {
             //Delete the physical file from either the local stor directory
             //or from the cloud
-            $this->_file->deletePhysicalFile();
+            $filesize = $this->_file->deletePhysicalFile();
 
-            $filesize = $this->getFileSize();
-            
             //Update the user's disk usage
             Application_Model_Preference::updateDiskUsage(-1 * $filesize);
             
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/CcFiles.php b/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/CcFiles.php
index 2790de707..e1d770bad 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/CcFiles.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/CcFiles.php
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ class CcFiles extends BaseCcFiles {
         return is_file($this->getAbsoluteFilePath());
     }
     
+    /**
+     * 
+     * Deletes the file from the stor directory
+     * 
+     * Returns the filesize of the deleted file
+     */
     public function deletePhysicalFile()
     {
         $filepath = $this->getAbsoluteFilePath();
@@ -107,6 +113,8 @@ class CcFiles extends BaseCcFiles {
         } else {
             throw new Exception("Could not locate file ".$filepath);
         }
+        
+        return $this->getFileSize();
     }
     
 } // CcFiles
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/CloudFile.php b/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/CloudFile.php
index eab64c1ce..d64d8f6e0 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/CloudFile.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/CloudFile.php
@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ class CloudFile extends BaseCloudFile
         }
     }
     
+    /**
+     * 
+     * Deletes the file from cloud storage by executing a python script
+     * that uses Apache Libcloud to connect with the cloud storage service
+     * 
+     * If the file was successfully deleted the filesize of that file is returned
+     */
     public function deletePhysicalFile()
     {
         $CC_CONFIG = Config::getConfig();
@@ -60,20 +67,29 @@ class CloudFile extends BaseCloudFile
         $bucket = escapeshellarg($CC_CONFIG["cloud_storage"]["bucket"]);
         $apiKey = escapeshellarg($CC_CONFIG["cloud_storage"]["api_key"]);
         $apiSecret = escapeshellarg($CC_CONFIG["cloud_storage"]["api_key_secret"]);
-        $objName = $this->getResourceId();
-        //we will pass the cloud storage bucket and api key info to the script
-        //instead of the script reading from a config file beacuse on saas we
-        //might store this info in the apache vhost
-        $command = '/usr/lib/airtime/pypo/bin/cloud_storage_deleter.py "'
-                             .$provider.'" "'
-                             .$bucket.'" "'
-                             .$apiKey.'" "'
-                             .$apiSecret.'" "'
-                             .$this->getResourceId().'" 2>&1; echo $?';
+        $objName = escapeshellarg($this->getResourceId());
+        
+        $command = "/usr/lib/airtime/pypo/bin/cloud_storage_deleter.py $provider $bucket $apiKey $apiSecret $objName 2>&1 echo $?";
+        
         $output = shell_exec($command);
-        if ($output != "0") {
-            Logging::info($output);
-            throw new Exception("Could not delete file from cloud storage");
+        if ($output != "") {
+            if (stripos($output, 'filesize') === false) {
+                Logging::info($output);
+                throw new Exception("Could not delete file from cloud storage");
+            }
         }
+        
+        $outputArr = json_decode($output, true);
+        return $outputArr["filesize"];
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * 
+     * Deletes the cloud_file's 'parent' object before itself
+     */
+    public function delete(PropelPDO $con = NULL)
+    {
+        CcFilesQuery::create()->findPk($this->getCcFileId())->delete();
+        parent::delete();
     }
 }
diff --git a/python_apps/pypo/cloud_storage_deleter.py b/python_apps/pypo/cloud_storage_deleter.py
index 6b6aef818..93bccd76f 100755
--- a/python_apps/pypo/cloud_storage_deleter.py
+++ b/python_apps/pypo/cloud_storage_deleter.py
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 
 import sys
+import simplejson
 
 from libcloud.storage.providers import get_driver
-from libcloud.storage.types import Provider, ContainerDoesNotExistError, ObjectDoesNotExistError
+from libcloud.storage.types import Provider, ObjectDoesNotExistError
 
-provider = str(sys.argv[0])
-bucket = str(sys.argv[1])
-api_key = str(sys.argv[2])
-api_key_secret = str(sys.argv[3])
-obj_name = str(sys.argv[4])
+provider = str(sys.argv[1])
+bucket = str(sys.argv[2])
+api_key = str(sys.argv[3])
+api_key_secret = str(sys.argv[4])
+obj_name = str(sys.argv[5])
 
 cls = get_driver(getattr(Provider, provider))
 driver = cls(api_key, api_key_secret)
@@ -19,6 +20,9 @@ try:
                                   object_name=obj_name)
     filesize = getattr(cloud_obj, 'size')
     driver.delete_object(obj=cloud_obj)
+    
+    data = simplejson.dumps({"filesize": filesize})
+    print data
 except ObjectDoesNotExistError:
-    raise Exception("Could not find object on %s" % provider)
+    raise Exception("Could not find object on %s in bucket: %s and object: %s" % (provider, bucket, obj_name))