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Where Stock Images are stored in SharePoint Online
I have tried looking for where "Stock Images" selected for banners or any other web part use on a SPO page are stored. I am unable to determine this. They are not stored in the Site Assets like other images that are uploaded to a SharePoint site.
Users have requested to be able to re-use an image and want to know how to find it again and I would like to give them a good answer - especially since this group of images seems to change quite frequently.
Can someone please direct me to where stock images that are used on a site are stored?
karen_dredske Stock images used in page banner or in image web parts are not stored in site assets library.
These images are hosted on public CDN by Microsoft & displayed using CDN URL.
For example, the image highlighted below is displayed using CDN URL as below:
Images uploaded from your computer will be stored in Site Assets library.
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karen_dredske I was looking for the same thing, did not find the location, but was able to find a hack how to solve it. It requires minimal setup with available tools.
- Search for the stock image and insert it into an Image Web Part
- On the edit bar, select Advanced editing
- Without doing any edits use the Save as copy . This will make a copy of the image in the Asset folder for the page.
- Then under Site Contents > Site Assets > Site Pages you can either find the folder with the page where you added the image.
Now you have several options to access this saved image, e.g. synchronize this folder to your desktop and use the filter function to see images only. Now you can re-use it by either linking to the same image already on SharePoint, or uploading it to this site or another site.
Hope this helps.karen_dredske I found a very nice way to get access to the pictures.
The stock images are also available if you add them into the picture Web Part as Stock Image.
Add your picture to this WebPart.
From the Picture Web Part you can directly use right-click and Save as...
Regards
Sebastian
karen_dredske Stock images are browsed online & not stored anywhere in SharePoint tenant.
When you add any images on SharePoint pages, images will be stored in Site Assets >> Site Pages (folder) >> Page Name (folder) --> Images will be stored in this subfolder
Note: The page folder is not created until you upload at least one image on a page.
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If you delete the page that had images you uploaded - will the corresponding site assets folder also be deleted (or after some period of time)? I have tested in SharePoint Online and I still see the corresponding site asset folder for that page though not sure if it will dump out later.
What is the risk of making a new folder in site assets for images that may be re-used on different pages at different times (such as leader images)?
Just because you delete a page, the corresponding folder in the Site Assets library is not deleted - ever. It will remain there unless you delete it yourself.
If you want to have a location that stores images that can be used across all SharePoint sites and and re-used. . . the best solution is to setup an Organization Assets site with a document library that is used for storing all images you want to make available. Instructions for how to set one up is here:
Create an organization assets library - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn
When you do this, then when you go to add an image. . . you will now see an option in the Image screen that is called "Organization" and will display all the folders and files of images from there.
I'm not sure that the Site Assets library will allow you to create a new folder for storing images. That library is a customized document library which, as you know, automatically creates folders that are associated with each site page created in the site. It doesn't like it when you mess with how it is designed to work.
- ganeshsanap I appreciate your response, but you didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. That image has to be stored somewhere for it to appear repeatedly over time on that web page. I would like to know where it is stored.
karen_dredske Stock images used in page banner or in image web parts are not stored in site assets library.
These images are hosted on public CDN by Microsoft & displayed using CDN URL.
For example, the image highlighted below is displayed using CDN URL as below:
Images uploaded from your computer will be stored in Site Assets library.
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