diff --git a/build/build_windows_standalone.R b/build/build_windows_standalone.R
index 5a9fdccc..b6c58c33 100644
--- a/build/build_windows_standalone.R
+++ b/build/build_windows_standalone.R
@@ -35,14 +35,6 @@ fs::file_copy(
     overwrite = TRUE
 )
 
-# clean standalone source dir
-fs::file_delete(
-    list.files(
-        file.path(win_dir, "src"), pattern = "diyabcGUI_", 
-        full.names = TRUE
-    )
-)
-
 # diyabcGUI windows source
 win_zip <- paste0("diyabcGUI_", pkg_version, ".zip")
 fs::file_copy(
@@ -59,6 +51,14 @@ setwd(cwd)
 
 Sys.sleep(2)
 
+# clean standalone source dir before zipping
+fs::file_delete(
+    list.files(
+        file.path(win_dir, "src"), pattern = "diyabcGUI_", 
+        full.names = TRUE
+    )
+)
+
 # standalone name
 app_version <- as.character(packageVersion(
     "diyabcGUI", lib.loc = file.path(win_dir, "app", "library")