About storing capacity

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    trangnhungpham · Member ·

    Hi,
    Recently I realized that I have used up much of the storage allowance for my site. I notice that this is due to the fact that I often upload high quality photos. I tried to downsize many of the uploaded photos, thus reduce their sizes significantly (from 7-8mb/each to less than 500kb/each). However, I realized that the figure for my space storage remained the same despite this significant reduction. Can you help me tell me what happened and why?
    Thank you very much.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Hi there, I’m seeing 2.2GB out of 3.0GB reported on your Media Library page. What was it to begin with?

    1GB is 1024MB, so it actually takes quite a lot of downsizing to crop it by even a point.

    I would suggest optimizing your images in your image editing program before you upload new ones. That should make the number grow much more slowly.

    Very nice images, by the way.

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    trangnhungpham · Member ·

    Hi,
    Thank you very much for the suggestion. I will remember to do it when I upload photos later. It’s my fault to ignorantly upload huge-size photos.
    However I don’t really know if I can get some more free space when I downsize the already uploaded photos. I downsized scores of photos from 5-8MB down to under 0.5MB, so I think at least there will be some percentage reduction, right?
    And I have just tried downsizing some photos and check the space used record. So actually I cut down 10-20mb but the detailed space used record in MB even increased, which makes me confused. Do you have any idea why this happened? Is this just unupdated system or do I need to delete all photos and reupload again for space freeing?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Editing your photos in the media library to resize them will not reduce your storage us, but will increase it. This is because we still keep the original version in addition to the resized version. This is necessary in case you ever want to undo the changes and go back to using the original image.

    To free up storage space you’ll instead need to resize the images offline, and re-upload them to your media library, after which you delete the original high-res ones. You’ll need to do this one image at a time, replacing the images in the posts where you’ve added them as you go, else this process could result in broken images in your actual posts.

    That is not a simple process, and takes a lot of time – I’ve done it for one of my sites. But it’s the only way.

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