Media library consumed space

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  freolite · Member · Oct 3, 2009 at 1:49 am

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  I’ve deleted the stuff in my media library, but there’s still “567.0 kB used, 3.0 GB (100.0%) upload space remaining.” Why is that?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 3, 2009 at 3:07 am

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  Note this:

  The amount of free space in your blog may not change for a few minutes, so please be patient.
  The amount of space freed may not drop until 500kb of images has been deleted. (1% of the 50mb is 500kb)
  Images that have been cached by search engines cannot be affected by us. Contacting Support about this cannot get the image removed.

  from:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-files/

  I’m curious. Why did you decide to delete all the pictures from your blog / did you understand that deleting “stuff in my media library” would remove the pictures on your blog?

  567kb is a very small part of the 3 GB you are able to use here on wp.com. I’m curious. Are you worried about using all the storage space too quickly or what?

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  freolite · Member · Oct 3, 2009 at 3:18 am

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  Thanks for the info. I was testing themes. The stuff in my media library are custom headers that I’ve decided to get rid of.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 3, 2009 at 3:28 am

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  Ah.
  Then just give it some time…
  You are nowhere near running out of space!