Working with Canvas Storage

When you publish content, it is downloaded by the Canvas and cached until its scheduled time. Content downloaded to a Canvas contributes to the amount of "used space". Canvases perform best when using less than 50% of their available hard drive storage.

Reviewing Canvas Storage

To review current storage capacities:

1. Click "Canvases" in the left sidebar to see your list of Canvases.
2. Click on the target Canvas to launch the Canvas drawer.
3. Click the "Advanced Settings" button, located in the top right of the Canvas drawer.
4. Scroll down to the 'Storage' section.
5. To review active downloads and recently completed downloads, click the icons next to the reported 'Used space'.

Automating Storage Cleanup

You can automate storage cleanup to keep your Canvas running at peak performance. By default, Canvases have a target storage threshold of 50% and a maximum threshold of 70%. This means that once a Canvas reaches 70% of its used space, it will begin to automatically delete files from its hard drive, starting with the oldest files first, until it reaches the target threshold.

To define storage thresholds for automatic cleanup:

1. Click "Canvases" in the left sidebar to see your list of Canvases.
2. Click on the target Canvas to launch the Canvas drawer.
3. Click the "Advanced Settings" button, located in the top right of the Canvas drawer.
4. Scroll down to the 'Storage' section.
   1. To modify when the Canvas begins deleting files, click into the ‘Max. threshold’ field and type in a new value.
   2. To modify when the Canvas stops deleting files, click into the ‘Target threshold’ field and type in a new value.

Resetting Storage Thresholds

To reset storage thresholds to default:

1. Click "Canvases" in the left sidebar to see your list of Canvases.
2. Click on the target Canvas to launch the Canvas drawer.
3. Click the "Advanced Settings" button, located in the top right of the Canvas drawer.
4. Scroll down to the 'Storage' section.
5. Click the "Set to default" button, located in the lower right corner of the 'Storage' section.

Manually Cleaning Up Storage

Aside from automatic cleanup, you can also manually cleanup your Canvas storage. 

1. Click "Canvases" in the left sidebar to see your list of Canvases.
2. Click on the target Canvas to launch the Canvas drawer.
3. Click the "Advanced Settings" button, located in the top right of the Canvas drawer.
4. Scroll down to the 'Storage' section.
5. Click the icon to open the storage drawer.
6. Click on "Canvas storage".
7. Click on "sd1" to open the primary storage folder.
8. Continue opening folders until you locate the target file for deletion.
9. Click on the target file to select it.
10. Click the "Delete" button in the lower right corner of the storage drawer.
11. Click "Delete" again to confirm.
12. Click anywhere outside the drawer to close it.