# Deactivate image download
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 28, 2015, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900 "2015-03-28T10:40:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@eha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eha)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900/1 "2015-03-28T10:40:28Z")
hi,
how can i deactivate the image download option.
i don´t want visitors to be able to download fullsize images/pictures from the forum. would be great if there is an option for the article editor to choose if other users or visitors should be able to download his fullsize uploads…
tnx, eric
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900/2 "2015-03-28T12:04:05Z")
You can enable the “prevent anons from downloading files” setting which will prevent visitors from downloading any images (at all).
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### Author:  [@eha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eha)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2015, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900/3 "2015-03-29T10:25:01Z")
hi jens,
thanks for reply, i am already using this function, maybe there is some room for improvement, because if i click on images, they open in bigger size and show the “download” link on the bottom of the image, if i click on that download-link, an url with no content opens.
maybe someone can remove the download link if the “prevent anons from downloading files” option is activated..?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900/4 "2015-03-29T18:41:00Z")
Yes this is a good suggestion can you take that @zogstrip.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900/5 "2015-03-29T20:39:53Z")
Wait, what? If they can view the image, they can save it…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900/6 "2015-03-29T21:07:10Z")
Right but we could suppress the obvious download button.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900/7 "2015-03-30T08:58:00Z")
Thanks @eha for suggesting that change. It’s now in 🐆
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8760f7d817537625b0cbb3a3581ecf2d56f74a14](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8760f7d817537625b0cbb3a3581ecf2d56f74a14)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-image-download/26900/8 "2015-03-30T08:58:05Z")