Title: Create Only One Copy
Last modified: December 8, 2022

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# Create Only One Copy

 *  [adamnova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamnova/)
 * (@adamnova)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-only-one-copy/)
 * Hi Smush Support,
 * As it is currently, the Smush plugin defeats one of it’s own purposes by making
   the original image folder larger. I understand that server optimized images to
   speed up a site is the main goal but I just smushed a site and it created 22 
   copies of each image causing the file size to go from 4 GB to 5.2 GB. This is
   after DELETING the originals. Is it possible to create an option, a checkbox 
   for example, to just create one copy of the original image instead of bloating
   the uploads folder?
    Example: [https://imgur.com/a/cxFhKpe](https://imgur.com/a/cxFhKpe)
   [](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/VM1k5Vs.png?ssl=1)
 * If it had that option it would be 5 stars and I would use it on all my sites.
   As it is now I have to restore a backup and delete it.
 * Cheers,
    Adam

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 *  Plugin Contributor [reSmush.it](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resmushit/)
 * (@resmushit)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-only-one-copy/#post-16276106)
 * Hi [@adamnova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamnova/),
 * Thanks for using our plugin.
    Basically, reSmush.it lean on WordPress mechanisms
   for creating variations of the original images. It uses the different images 
   variations (called image sizes) installed on your website (generally displayed
   here : yourwebsiteurl/wp-admin/options-media.php).
 * When resmush.it plugin is performing optimizations, it asks WP which image sizes
   are used, and will optimized all these aspects. If you have this large amount
   of images sizes, you should have a theme that uses them, or maybe a plugin that
   has created a large quantity of images sizes.
 * The increase of the library is, in my opinion due to the backup we’re performing
   when creating the optimization (it creates a -unsmushed file for each original
   file before optimizing it). This is useful if you optimize your whole library
   with a too agressive image quality factor (< 70) and that you want to increase
   it to enhance image quality. If you keep a good quality factor (~90), you can
   disable backups in the plugin options, and delete backups files (button proposed
   in the plugin dashboard). Then, it will reduce your library size.
 * Last, but not least, the main intest of such plugins, as you said, is mainly 
   to bring to your visitors the best user experience ever by lowering image size,
   and thus, the loading time. The cost of hosting is now hopefully pretty affordable.
 * Hope this helped,
    Kind regards, Charles

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