# Spurious warning about downloading remote images?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/spurious-warning-about-downloading-remote-images/141653
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 14, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spurious-warning-about-downloading-remote-images/141653 "2020-02-14T23:06:19Z")
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### Author:  [@adamengst](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adamengst)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spurious-warning-about-downloading-remote-images/141653/1 "2020-02-14T23:06:19Z")
I just upgraded to 2.4.0 beta 11, and quite shortly afterward received a warning that:
> The `download_remote_images_to_local` setting was disabled because the disk space limit at `download_remote_images_threshold` was reached.
However, when I checked my admin console, it would appear I have 4.8 GB of free space. Any idea what happened (bug in b11?), and if there’s any harm in turning `download_remote_images_to_local` back on?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spurious-warning-about-downloading-remote-images/141653/2 "2020-02-14T23:47:47Z")
Have you checked the setting download\_remote\_images\_threshold? It is clearly not a spurious warning unless the setting kicked in too early.
If it is 10% and you have 50GB of storage then it will stop when your site hit 5GB free.
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spurious-warning-about-downloading-remote-images/141653/3 "2020-02-14T23:48:40Z")
Most likely this will help:
> [@Downloading remote images disabled due to disk space](https://meta.discourse.org/t/downloading-remote-images-disabled-due-to-disk-space/30992/13):
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> log in via SSH and apt-get autoclean apt-get autoremove git pull ./launcher rebuild app ./launcher cleanup That should fix you up nicely, cleaning both Docker containers and cleaning up old Ubuntu automatic kernel upgrade archives too, which can be quite large over a year.
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### Author:  [@adamengst](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adamengst)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spurious-warning-about-downloading-remote-images/141653/4 "2020-02-15T17:48:33Z")
> [@Remah](#):
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> If it is 10% and you have 50GB of storage then it will stop when your site hit 5GB free.
Doh! You’re of course likely right.
> [@omarfilip](#):
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> Most likely this will help:
That was a big help, thank you! Gigabytes saved.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spurious-warning-about-downloading-remote-images/141653/5 "2024-01-13T12:43:31Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spurious-warning-about-downloading-remote-images/141653/6 "2024-02-12T12:43:57Z")
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