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What happens if I delete art I previously used as a map?

I reached my storage limit. The biggest things are all maps. If I delete a piece of art that I have used for a map, and I go back to that page, will the map be gone? Or will it remain, I just won't be able to replace it without re-uploading? Thanks!
It will be gone. 
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keithcurtis
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It might fool you by lasting a short time, but that's just cached data, and it will soon disappear.
that is f'ed up.
THAT IS REALLY F'ED UP.  So LITERALLY despite their being no documentation explaining this, it appears to remain for SEVERAL DAYS and then some random time in the future it will just disappear? Sometimes I really hope that whatever the next VTT is actually just puts this site out of business and so I have to rebuild somewhere else that isn't just a pile of kludge.
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Oosh
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Seth The Frank said: So LITERALLY despite their being no documentation explaining this... Here you go. It's not a Roll20 invention, it's just how the entire web works.
Oosh, my guy, has anyone ever told you the joke about the UI designer who thought they could do UX? No? I can't imagine why no one told you, in specific, that joke.  
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Kraynic
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Seth The Frank said: Oosh, my guy, has anyone ever told you the joke about the UI designer who thought they could do UX? No? I can't imagine why no one told you, in specific, that joke.   Your previous post did not at all look like a joke, and showed a misunderstanding of how browser cache works.  If it was intended to be a joke and you do understand how browser cache works, then more than Oosh was fooled.
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The Aaron
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I'm sorry to hear this has happened to you.&nbsp; Here is the relevant section of the help: <a href="https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039675113-Art-Library#ArtLibrary-FreeingUpStorageSpace" rel="nofollow">https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039675113-Art-Library#ArtLibrary-FreeingUpStorageSpace</a> To delete art assets, you can right click on an image in the Recent Uploads list and choose&nbsp; Delete Item . This will permanently remove that art asset from My Library and&nbsp; any game that is currently using it . With that in mind, you will want to make certain that the images you are deleting are not necessary for current game content you're actively playing with.
Kraynic said: Seth The Frank said: Oosh, my guy, has anyone ever told you the joke about the UI designer who thought they could do UX? No? I can't imagine why no one told you, in specific, that joke.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your previous post did not at all look like a joke, and showed a misunderstanding of how browser cache works.&nbsp; If it was intended to be a joke and you do understand how browser cache works, then more than Oosh was fooled. I did not tell a joke The joke was left out, because that is the point. I gave an explanation to Oosh why he misunderstood the criticism of Roll20's system. To assert that the entire internet cache system is at fault for what is clearly a failure of Roll20 to design with UX in mind, I find amusing.&nbsp; You seem to also have accepted the idea that Roll20 could not have designed their system to avoid creating a false impression of what had or had not been deleted. In fact, what they did was take the shortcut of using the cache and then assumed that people would know how they had structured their display system. Again, the point, which it saddens me to have to make to you as well, is that they failed to take user experience into account and designed entirely around function with the assumption that others would understand the underlying system, despite those users not being coders. It survives because the primary group targeted by the site and avery large proportion of the heavy users includes a very sizeable proportion of people who code. But, it is why the overall site is constantly on the edge of being replaced by systems like talespire, Fantasygrounds, etc. All of whom understand that design like this one sacrifice usability for functionality.
The Aaron said: I'm sorry to hear this has happened to you.&nbsp; Here is the relevant section of the help: <a href="https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039675113-Art-Library#ArtLibrary-FreeingUpStorageSpace" rel="nofollow">https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039675113-Art-Library#ArtLibrary-FreeingUpStorageSpace</a> To delete art assets, you can right click on an image in the Recent Uploads list and choose&nbsp; Delete Item . This will permanently remove that art asset from My Library and&nbsp; any game that is currently using it . With that in mind, you will want to make certain that the images you are deleting are not necessary for current game content you're actively playing with. Thanks Aaron. I wish I had found this before, but I appreciate that there was indeed documentation of this that I could have potentially found. Do you by any chance know how I could get to the further back sections of my art folder? A lot of my early uploads which I no longer use are WAAAYY back there. Like it took me literally 15 minutes of scrolling and I was only back a few weeks.&nbsp;