diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2dc08709a..2fb1c84a9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Fixed
+- Fix to remove dataset from a space [#349](https://github.com/clowder-framework/clowder/issues/349)
+  (The count might be off to existing spaces, please run fixCounts script)
+
 ### Added
 - MRI previewer for NIFTY (.nii) files.
 
diff --git a/app/services/mongodb/MongoDBSpaceService.scala b/app/services/mongodb/MongoDBSpaceService.scala
index c7dd53292..ab036586e 100644
--- a/app/services/mongodb/MongoDBSpaceService.scala
+++ b/app/services/mongodb/MongoDBSpaceService.scala
@@ -429,7 +429,6 @@ class MongoDBSpaceService @Inject() (
     datasets.get(dataset) match {
       case Some(x) => {
         val datasetBytes = datasets.getBytesForDataset(dataset)
-        datasets.addToSpace(dataset, space)
         ProjectSpaceDAO.update(MongoDBObject("_id" -> new ObjectId(space.stringify)), $inc("spaceBytes" -> -1 * datasetBytes), upsert=false, multi=false, WriteConcern.Safe)
         ProjectSpaceDAO.update(MongoDBObject("_id" -> new ObjectId(space.stringify)), $inc("fileCount" -> -1 * x.files.length), upsert=false, multi=false, WriteConcern.Safe)
         ProjectSpaceDAO.update(MongoDBObject("_id" -> new ObjectId(space.stringify)), $inc("datasetCount" -> -1), upsert=false, multi=false, WriteConcern.Safe)