# Would it be worth resizing uploaded images (to save space)?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 22, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-it-be-worth-resizing-uploaded-images-to-save-space/51901 "2016-10-22T18:35:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![mitchellk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mitchellk/32/120419_2.png) [@mitchellk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mitchellk)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-it-be-worth-resizing-uploaded-images-to-save-space/51901/10 "2017-02-10T08:42:22Z")

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Just for interest sake, how long has your Discourse site been live and what size is your current backup file. I’ve just started up a new site with Discourse which is going to involve lots of image uploads so just wondering where you stand after X months. @codinghorror solution was indeed what I was thinking to do is every month run a cron and compress all images older than X months using littleutils or any other image compression software. Littleutils handles PNG’s quite well and is used as the backend to a number of Wordpress image compression plugins.

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