There’s a new feature coming your way that displays site storage space and usage.
Accessible directly from the Media Manager, it will be possible to see at a glance how much site storage space is available.
The first phase of the rollout is for new users only.
We will notify you as soon as the feature becomes available to you and your existing client sites.A site that reaches or exceeds its storage limit will continue to run as normal.
However, to add or upload additional media files, the existing storage usage will need to be managed or the plan upgraded.If a site approaches, reaches or exceeds its storage limit, a notification email will be sent.
For more information, you can refer to our article on storage and bandwidth.
The info is useful, but to actually manage storage usage it would be extremely helpful to have ready methods to replace existing images in Media Manager when doing updates to pages that include images. Otherwise, endless duplicates of files are generated with updates that involve importing images. Not good for storage management.
When importing content into a Collection, the _id field can be set and therefore that content can be replaced with subsequent updates by saving it with the same _id value. But with Media Manager, the importFile() function does not seem to enable that kind of replacement. The fileName value is a promising analog, but it isn’t clear that an image can be replaced by assigning the same fileName as part of the Meta Data. In fact, there is additional confusion about using the fileName because it is flagged as “deprecated” and the link to “learn more” is defunct.
If a unique fileName is designated in the metadata for importFile(), can that image file be replaced by assigning the same fileName to a subsequent image? With fileName deprecated, is there another way to uniquely identify an image when it is imported and then use that identifier when importing a new image so that it replaces the existing image?
Such capability really is needed to genuinely support efficient storage management.