The Image Gallery lives under Library in the Explorer sidebar's More group and collects every image you have uploaded. It is the companion to placing images on the canvas: the canvas is where you use them, and the gallery is where you manage them. Images you bring in with an import (draw.io, Microsoft Whiteboard, Excalidraw), and pictures you pick from the image search, land here too.
What it shows
Each image appears as a card with its name, its size in pixels and on disk, and a badge saying where it is used:
- Used in 2 canvases (or however many) means a canvas of yours still shows it. Click the badge to list those canvases, each a link that opens it.
- Not used means none of your canvases points at it, so it is usually safe to delete.
To add an image, drop it, paste it, or click the Drop, paste, or click to upload an image area at the top. It uses the same checks as uploading from the canvas: one image can be up to 10 MB, and an image you already have is not stored twice.
Deleting images
Press the bin on a card to delete an image and reclaim the space. The confirmation tells you what will happen: if the image is still used in one or more canvases, it warns that those canvases will show a broken picture; otherwise it says the image will be removed for good. Either way, a deleted image cannot be brought back.
Automatic cleanup of unused images
You do not have to keep on top of this by hand. Once a day, liveworkspace removes uploads that are both more than 30 days old and used by nothing in any of its apps, freeing the storage automatically. The 30-day window is deliberately generous: an image you uploaded recently, or one anything still references, is always left alone, so a picture you have not placed on the canvas yet is never swept out from under you. An image in use stays put no matter how old it is.
Who has a gallery
Everyone does, signed in or not. A guest's gallery belongs to their browser, like their canvases, and moves to their account when they sign up. The gallery is also reachable from the editor's Explorer panel, on the Image Gallery tab of its Library section.
A gallery holds up to 100 images and 100 MB in total, and it is the same gallery in every liveworkspace app you sign in to. If images are turned off for a deployment, the gallery says "Images are not enabled here." rather than failing silently.
The Not used badge only checks your own canvases. The daily cleanup will eventually clear unused uploads for you, but deleting one yourself reclaims the space straight away rather than waiting out the 30-day window.
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