uploaded images too large, how to re-size w/out starting over
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I am not very familiar with image editing and did not realize my images were so large, I have 1057 images in my wordpress that need to be re-sized so that I am no longer at the 3GB upload limit. I tried to rescale the images but it is not giving me the option of deleting the original (I dont want to restore it, I just want the space back). Please help, I cannot delete and re-do a years worth of images on my blog.
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(psssst, don’t tell staff I said this but…why don’t you just register a new blog and upload your new photos to it, then hotlink them into your regular blog?)
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There must be a way to re-size the images that have already been uploaded without using up more blog space. In my attempt to re-size images to free up blog space, all I did was use more space…there must be a way to free up space without deleting the images… It seems unreasonable that there isn’t
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I’m not aware of any means available for resizing the images already uploaded into your Media Library so they occupy less space. You can try raincoaster’s idea or you can purchase a space upgrade.
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Sorry, what’s unreasonable is your idea that “there must be a way to free up space without deleting the images”. It’s like saying you want to free up space in a bookcase without removing the books that are already there. As rain and tt suggested, you need more shelves…
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thank you for your kind reply. It doesn’t seem so far fetched to think that, since I can re-size and have the option to restore to original, that I would also have the option to delete the original copy and only keep the re-sized one instead of having both, thereby freeing space. I just wanted to know if there was a way, but if there is no way to do so, then I am just going to re-upload everything properly sized.
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It doesn’t seem far fetched to you because you’re not very familiar with the technicalities. When you upload an image, you send a copy of it for storage. Downsizing that image in the post editor doesn’t affect the stored original, it simply tells the browser to display it in reduced size: the original remains untouched, and the reduced version we see isn’t an extra copy that gets stored alongside the original. To continue my book analogy, inserting a downsized version of an image you have uploaded is like handing out a miniature photocopy of a book you’ve got: the photocopy doesn’t replace your book, nor is it added next to it.
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