Message says I have used 3 gigs of media storage and I do not think I have

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Jan 30, 2013 at 3:52 pm

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  Interesting …..

  See this page: http://dontbeawoodpecker.wordpress.com/

  Test One (Stews) is hotlinked from telegraph.co.uk and does NOT appear in my Media Library. Full image source URL is: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02333/virgin_1815634b_2333966b.jpg

  Test Two (No Sale Button) is hotlinked from from the OP’s page Zandy posted above and does NOT appear in my Media Library. Full image source URL is: http://inkbluesky.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/no-sale-old-register-keys-inkbluesky.png?w=400&h=300

  Test Three (Sleeping Fox) is hotlinked from 3.bp.blogspot.com and DOES appear in my Media Library. Full image link URL is: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P12f9Bx98_E/UQakx49UhbI/AAAAAAAAD4k/8VyI9qScJMY/s1600/sleeping-red-fox-wall-inkbluesky.png

  All were done exactly the same way using the “Insert from URL” option under the “Add Media” in the New Post form.

  Also note that while the Sleeping Fox image in the OPs post is 133 Kb, the full image from the blogspot source URL is nearly 3Mb and that is the file space occupied in my Media Library.

  Also, I’m not sure why it went full size instead of some sort of thumbnail, but I don’t insert media very often so I may have missed a step.

  Main question though is why did the blogspot sourced image automatically transload while the others didn’t?

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Jan 30, 2013 at 4:15 pm

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  The part I can’t reproduce is the OPs comment about foreign URLs. Every way I look at the Fox image, I see the usual WP media/files type URL, never the blogspot one.

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  zandyring · Staff · Jan 30, 2013 at 8:26 pm

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  Thanks Not A,

  I also checked with Tumblr and didn’t get the problem, so it seems to be pretty localized to Blogger/Blogspot. I’ve made a note with the internal team.

  Inkbluesky,

  Hopefully we can get this righted so you can get your media library back!

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  zandyring · Staff · Jan 31, 2013 at 1:23 pm

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  Hi all,

  This is a feature that we offer, but that isn’t accurately reflected in our support documentation (to be fixed shortly!)

  We do auto import images from certain sites in order to provide a faster, more reliable user experience.

  I apologize deeply for the confusion – we all learned on this one!

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Jan 31, 2013 at 1:28 pm

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  Hmmmm……

  Well, then I suggest two things:

  1) The ability to opt out somehow.

  2) A caution be displayed on selection of HQ images that exceed 500Kb so people don’t unknowingly eat their allotted storage space.

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  zandyring · Staff · Jan 31, 2013 at 4:50 pm

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  I’ll make a note for the team, thanks!

  This program has been running for about two and a half years now, FYI.