# Large image resize - why only 64% scaling at most?

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**Created:** [1월 22, 2016, 4:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-image-resize-why-only-64-scaling-at-most/38347 "2016-01-22T16:05:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [1월 22, 2016, 5:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-image-resize-why-only-64-scaling-at-most/38347/2 "2016-01-22T17:19:30Z")

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Because there’s no way to **1)** predict how long a downsize operation will take and **2)** know what % we need to use to downsize a **x** MB image to **1** MB image.

_If you know the answer to either one of those points, please share_ 🙌

So we do it the hard way. We indeed only do 2 80-%-downsizes. From my testing, these values seem to be a good balance between successfully resizing large images and not taking too much time trying to…

I might make these values (“`# of attemps`” and “`% of downsize`”) new site settings, but I also don’t want to give users an easy way to 🔫 themselves in the :shoe:.

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