Replacing an asset while keeping meta data tags

[willardc]

I have a large amount of assets that have quite a bit of metadata tags assigned to each one. I am needing to modify each file and re-upload them. Is there a way to do so and keep the metadata tags assigned to the new file? When I try to upload a new version and have it replace the old version it wipes out all the metadata tags. If I upload it and create a version it keeps the metadata intact but then im wasting storage housing an old file i dont want and i cant see how to delete the old version.

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thnaks!

[aanchal-sikka · Accepted solution]

Hello @willardc 

Option-1: If version purge is enabled, it will clean up old versions based on configuration

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/deploying/configuring/version-purging....

So, space is claimed regularly.

Option-2: If you intend to replace, loosing all versions, then :

• export metadata of existing assets 
• Upload new assets
• Import the metadata

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/assets/metadata/metadata-import-exp...

Both export and import utilities are available OOTB and explained in the above link