#2373·anytype-ts

Attachment size increase after pasting in Anytype

Author: njko39Created Sep 11, 2026Updated Sep 11, 2026
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Current Behavior

Image pasted or dragged inside anytype goes from 29,9kb to 80,4kb

Expected Behavior

Image size stays as is

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Note image size in windows explorer
  2. Paste image in Anytype
  3. Click "view as object" and see increased size
  4. Download image from Anytype and see increased size in windows explorer as well

Environment

markdown
- OS: Windows 11 25H2
- Version: Anytype 0.56.5

Anything else?

Also, aside that bug, could an option to shrink attachments be implemented? Attachments usually takes most of space, and no app i know helps maintain that. Im often just Ctrl+V screenshots or images from internet into notes, and often these takes too much space. Could there be an option to "optimize channel attachments"? Like, give a bit of settings to shrink all images largest size into Xpx, compress without visible quality loss or to compress to desired x kb size limit. Could also be nice to have a possibility to have "auto-optimize" function that asks everytime i'm pasting anything to a note so i can see result immidiately and just Ctrl+Z and paste without optimization if its something important