# Depositing Cycles from Terminal

**URL:** <https://forum.dfinity.org/t/depositing-cycles-from-terminal/9438>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [December 8, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/depositing-cycles-from-terminal/9438 "2021-12-08T00:51:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![saikatdas0790](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/saikatdas0790/32/17147_2.png) [@saikatdas0790](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/saikatdas0790)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/depositing-cycles-from-terminal/9438/11 "2021-12-17T07:53:50Z")

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This might help

> [@How to collect the cycles from the useless canisters?](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/how-to-collect-the-cycles-from-the-useless-canisters/8150/4):
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> I would suggest not destroying the canister but reusing it to deploy whatever new wasm you’re deploying. That way the 1T cycles used when creating a new canister is not wasted. Simply use the same identity and the existing canister ID in your new project’s canister\_ids.json when deploying.

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