Check your storage and tidy up unused assets

You can check your usage straight from the menu of the track editor.

1. 1Click File in the menu at the top.
2. 2Click Storage (usage breakdown and asset clean-up).

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1. 1
   Action Click File in the menu at the top.
2. 2
   Action Click Storage (usage breakdown and asset clean-up).

Check The Storage dialog opens. At the top it shows the storage you are using and your contracted capacity in large numbers (left out of the screenshots).

Below the numbers there is a color-coded bar and the usage for each kind of data.

1. 1The bar shows how much of your capacity is in use: the colored part at the left end is what you are using now. Its colors match the kinds listed below.
2. 2Check the usage of each kind: assets, clips, exported videos, undo data, slides, the speed-up cache and project settings.

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   Check The bar shows how much of your capacity is in use: the colored part at the left end is what you are using now. Its colors match the kinds listed below.
2. 2
   Check Check the usage of each kind: assets, clips, exported videos, undo data, slides, the speed-up cache and project settings.

Check Image, video and audio assets are files you uploaded or created. Audio clips and video clips are the speech audio and the generated avatar video. Undo data is earlier audio and video kept so that you can undo an edit. The speed-up cache is data such as generated preview video, kept so that the project displays and plays faster the next time you open it. In the screenshot the rows read, left to right and top to bottom: image assets, video assets, audio assets, audio clips, video clips, exported videos, undo data, slides (PowerPoint), speed-up cache and project settings. In the account used for this example, the speed-up cache, video clips and audio clips used the most, in that order. Below this, Large projects listed the five projects using the most storage (left out of the screenshots).

This is the bottom of the Storage dialog. The dialog is for viewing usage; assets and projects are tidied up on a separate storage management page.

1. 1Read the note: the speed-up cache counts toward your capacity, and assets and projects are organized and deleted on the storage management page.
2. 2Clear removes the speed-up cache to free storage. It was not pressed in this example.
3. 3Click Open storage management. The page opens in another tab.

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   Check Read the note: the speed-up cache counts toward your capacity, and assets and projects are organized and deleted on the storage management page.
2. 2
   Check Clear removes the speed-up cache to free storage. It was not pressed in this example.
3. 3
   Action Click Open storage management. The page opens in another tab.

Check What happens after clearing the speed-up cache was not checked for this guide. If you share the account with others, let them know before clearing it.

This is the storage management page, opened in another tab. It lists the same kinds as the Storage dialog, one per row, with percentages.

1. 1Check the usage of each kind and its share of the total.
2. 2The speed-up cache row also has Clear. It was not pressed in this example.

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   Check Check the usage of each kind and its share of the total.
2. 2
   Check The speed-up cache row also has Clear. It was not pressed in this example.

Check A question mark sits beside each name (not opened for this guide). The top of the page shows your usage, your contracted capacity and the percentage in use (left out of the screenshots). The account in this example was using 5% of its capacity. Messages shown when usage nears or reaches the limit did not appear in this example and are not covered in this guide.

Further down the page are tabs for choosing what to tidy up: Projects, My assets, Exported videos and Undo history.

1. 1The Projects tab is open at first, with a note about the storage used by each project.
2. 2Click My assets.

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   Check The Projects tab is open at first, with a note about the storage used by each project.
2. 2
   Action Click My assets.

Check The Projects tab lists the storage used by each project (left out of the screenshots). Deleting a project, an exported video or undo history is not demonstrated in this guide.

The My assets tab lists your uploaded assets together with the project each one belongs to. When there are many, narrow them down by name.

1. 1Enter part of the name in the Filter by file or project name field. In this example it is “storage-sample-memo”.
2. 2Check the filtered result. Look at the file name, kind, size, project and date added to make sure it is the asset you mean to delete.
3. 3Click Delete at the right end of the row.

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   Enter Enter part of the name in the Filter by file or project name field. In this example it is “storage-sample-memo”.
2. 2
   Check Check the filtered result. Look at the file name, kind, size, project and date added to make sure it is the asset you mean to delete.
3. 3
   Action Click Delete at the right end of the row.

Check The screenshot shows the list narrowed down to the 13 KB sample image uploaded for this guide. The uploaded file name had a short alphanumeric prefix. The All kinds box at the left is for narrowing the list by kind of asset. Narrowing with that box, and ticking several assets to use Delete selected assets, are not demonstrated in this guide.

Pressing Delete shows a confirmation. The asset is not removed until you press Delete here.

1. 1Read the file name, the size and the warning: clips that use this asset can no longer be displayed, and the deletion cannot be undone.
2. 2If you are sure, click Delete.

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   Check Read the file name, the size and the warning: clips that use this asset can no longer be displayed, and the deletion cannot be undone.
2. 2
   Action If you are sure, click Delete.

Check If in doubt, choose Cancel. The sample image in this example is not used by any clip. What a project shows after an asset it uses is deleted was not checked for this guide.

After pressing Delete, the confirmation closed and the asset disappeared from the list.

1. 1Check that the count now reads 0 items, 0 B.
2. 2The list says there is no matching asset: nothing with the filtered name remains.

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   Check Check that the count now reads 0 items, 0 B.
2. 2
   Check The list says there is no matching asset: nothing with the filtered name remains.

Check In this example, the My assets count in the editor's Storage dialog went up by one after the upload and returned to the earlier number after the deletion. Clear the filter field to see your other assets.