Jira Cloud Attachment Size limit not enforced

Question

We've been alerted that our Jira Cloud account is nearly out of free space. In my efforts to cleanup our instance, I've noticed that some teams have attached massive videos to some tasks. These videos appear to exceed the attachment size limit set in the Jira administration.

Question: Is the attachment limit no longer enforced?

Configuration
Jira Cloud  attachment size limit set to 10MB.

Test Data

I generated a 12MB file on my Mac

* Create file: "mkfile 12m 12mfile.pdf"
* File details:  12582912 Dec  3 08:29 12mfile.pdf

Test

* Create a test Jira task
* Attempt to attach the 12MB attchment
* Expect:  Jira warns user that file is too large to attach
* Actual: Jira accepts the file and attaches to task with no warning.

Joseph Hani · Answer

Hey Bill !! 
Thank you for your help! I really like your code! It could be useful for us :)

I don't know the size of your instance but we are also trying to manage all the attachments in our project.

If you like, I have opened a question in the community but the code could also help you.

The script work in REST API also, it exports all the information about the ticket with attachment. Mainly, we are interested in the size and creation date of the ticket. And if we see tickets with a big size we bulk delete those tickets with Automation.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Help-on-export-script-in-python-bat-using-requests/qaq-p/1878122

Also, if you have any idea of how i could improve the script that would be super great !

Have a nice day @Bill_Stephens

Regards,

JH

Bill_Stephens_2b82rc · Answer

Our problem is video attachments. Ideally, videos should be stored where they can be accessed with a URL (Google Drive) and linked to issues. I'm handling the cleanup with a Python script against the REST API. * Query tasks created before X and that have attachments* GET https://.atlassian.net/search?jql= Project = AND attachments is not EMPTY and created < "2017/01/01" * For each matched key* Get issue JSON* GET https://.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/ * Extract the fields->attachment array * For each attachment* if mimeType in (video/mp4, video/avi, video/x-ms-wmv)* Delete the attachment* DELETE https://.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/attachment/ It's in testing. I might have to add a sleep to avoid hitting API rate limits.

Bill_Stephens_2b82rc · Answer

OK.  It appears that Jira is blocking the uploads, but the error doesn't mention file size as a problem.

After page refresh, the issue is gone. I assume that the file was also removed from the filesystem, too.