Adding Image to Page – Disk Space Considerations

  • Resolved siobhanf

    (@siobhanf)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, I have uploaded images into my Media Library. I now want to add an image to a page – which is easily done. However, what happens to my available disk space when I do this? eg if I have 10 x 50k images in my media library – that will nominally take up 500K (I know other images eg thumbnails etc are created – but for simplicity of arithmetic I am discounting these). If I add all these images to a page are these then taking up another 500K from my storage space – or are these simply pointers to the one image so not taking up any extra space? Similarly, if I add them all to another page – will that be another 500K of server storage space that is being used up?

    I also have the same question re the use of images in a carousel.

    Thanks
    S.

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  • When you upload the image, the space is used. When you type your content and refer to an image, it does not copy the image. It is HTML that refers to the file on the disk. You can refer to the same image many times, but it was uploaded only once.

    Thread Starter siobhanf

    (@siobhanf)

    Thanks Joy. So I am assuming that it will therefore not take up any further server storage space (except for the nominal amount of the html pointer)? Only asking as today I was creating a page with a lot of images (that were already loaded into my media library) on it and it gobbled up server storage space. You’ve confirmed what I though it was doing, but thought I’d better check.

    Many thanks
    S.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Your assumption is correct. The pointer doesn’t even take up file server space, it adds to the space used on the database server. Granted, DB server and file server could be on the same physical machine. Even so, it’s likely they use different disk partitions.

    I’ve no idea why adding many existing images to a post would use up more file server space, assuming you inserted existing images and did not re-upload the same images all over again.

    Thread Starter siobhanf

    (@siobhanf)

    Thanks bcworkz, it’s good to get confirmation on my assumption. Thanks for the explanation of the pointer etc – good to know. I definitely didn’t upload new images, and have checked in the File Manager and there is just the one copy there, no duplicates etc. I can now rule out my page building, but will have to investigate this futher.
    Many thanks
    S.

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