Those are some slick additions to paid storage, Mark!

What an excellent example of meeting user demand and need -- Congrats!

Seeing the quota percentages now in Uploads is also really nice.

http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/12/06/running-out-of-space/

Sun-Tzu: "Confront your soldiers with the deed itself; never let them know your design..."

;-)

The FAQ says 50mb
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/upload-space/

Everyone knows, it is not a secret.

How do you know?

I replied to leisureguy in another thread that this will happen soon. And it will.

Is there *anyplace* I can see how much space I'm using for my images?

for one thing, none except site admins knows exact value of <quota_size_limit> -- there're only different inofficial rumors about it in the forum chats or random blogs posts. it might be equal anything: 50MB or 25MB or 1MB.

even the latter smallest value (1MB) gives us a simple idea that total space needed to host all user's images and attachments is about 50TB (50 000 000 MB) of hard disk(s) capacity. but if we multiply that on the rumored 50MB quota the product becomes a fascinating number of 2 500TB!

perhaps, such incredible numbers isn't something that helps to the half a million feel themselves strong too much and that is why there is no "*anyplace* I can see how much space I'm using for my images"?

anyhow, this begin to bother people only *after* they've signed up and made enough posts (i.e when it makes somewhat problematic to tranfer blog somewhere else), and then finaly exceeded their images (only images and what about plain text posts?) quota.

anyway, who cares if some nowdays startups offer 1GB free hosting space for any type of files?

oh, yes any web2.0 bubble can burst suddenly with all your data stored on their hardware. so, what's the deal? -- well, their point is very accurate and simple: life is ephemeral, people want it all (and blog too) now!

Many thanks for the continued help. Things have settled down for a bit. And, boy, does that optimizing work! MUCH smaller files but still good photos.

In Adobe Photoshop Elements ver 4.0, for example, open the image in the Standard Editor (from the opening menu "Edit and Enhance Photos) and then click File, Save for Web... (or press Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S) and you will find a workspace that shows both the original image and the image as you optimize it. There's also a button to allow you to view the image as optimized in your default browser. Once you have the image optimized to your satisfaction, you can save it to your hard drive and then upload it. It might be useful to save all optimized images to a special folder---"Optimized images" or the like. More information is available in Adobe Photoshop Elements Help by searching on "optimizing".

I'm working away through the blog, optimizing the images one by one. It goes pretty quickly.

Thanks for the pointers and the help.

mark: No, I don't think so. I think timethief presumed you would know who Mark (aka Podz) the "Support Maven" is. He really is amazing ;-)

It would be good if the FAQ entries made it easy to ask a question if not answered, but it is tricky to get the write balance between submitting to support and to the forums. Anything that can go to the forums, allows others to be benefit as well.

Mark is currently looking at some support software packages / services to see how to compliment the amazing job he does.

Yes, free packages are best, but only if they in fact do the job you want---i.e., optimize the images. The ones I tested said nothing about that, at least using the word "optimize," and I didn't know what else to look for. Adobe Photoshop Elements, OTOH, was quite clear about it, and the steps needed to do it.

Did I miss something that told me who Mark was and where he lives and how to comment on his advice? Or is it assumed that users already know that stuff?

I checked and Barry tells me you still have 51 MB of images. 13MB uploaded this month and 10MB last. As timethief suggests dashboard -> manage -> uploads is where you will have to delete your images if you want to upload more.

Another option is using a third party for image hosting such as PhotoBucket or ImageShack.

Please let me know if this helps or not,
Lloyd

But, now that I have used Adobe Photo Elements to optimize the photo, chopping down the filesize considerably, I run into another problem:

I delete the old (large) photo file. So it's gone now. And I go to upload the new (small) photo file. But I can't upload because of my quota. But I thought (based on advice received above) that deleting the file would make more room, so I that I could upload the smaller file and work through my blog, deleting large files and replacing them with small files.

Why am I still stuck not being able to upload an image? Any idea?

Edit2: It seems really geeky for a non technical gal like me. *lol* I don't even own a camera.

I'm sort of burned out on this for today. I'll try again later, and also see if there's anything in Adobe Photoshop Elements v. 4.0 on "optimizing/optimising" photos... I do have that package already.

Is this one of those things that's perfectly clear if you already know it?

So uninstall IrfanView and on to the next.

If I were the kind of person who became frustrated, I'd probably be feeling frustrated now. But I'm hopeful that, if the guy provides a list of programs that will optimise and photo, at least one of them should do it.