For the past few days a customer of mine has been reaching out for support regarding her Drupal website. She has been getting the message "The selected file 123.JPG could not be uploaded. The file is 1.95 MB which would exceed your disk quota of 10 MB."

Apparently she is not alone, many people report the error "The selected file cannot be attached to this post, because the disk quota of 10 MB has been reached" when using Drupal and that is because the system has an automatic cap of 10 megabytes per user so that visitors cannot use up all of your space. In this case I want to increase the space because my customer needs to be able to upload more images in her posts! The fix is pretty easy as follows:

By default Drupal imposes a file upload limit on each user (with the exception of the admin). To change the default upload limit do the following (depending on your version of Drupal):

4.7: Administer -> Settings -> Upload

5.0: Administer -> Site Configuration -> File Uploads

On the next screen you'll be able to open drop-down boxes for each user role you've defined. The settings you can adjust include:

• Permitted file extensions
• Maximum file size per upload
• Total file size per user

The last one, "Total file size per user," is the one you'll need to increase to avoid this error. Enter any number you wish, keeping in mind your server, or hosting plan limits. You can also increase the size limit of individual uploads from 5MB here