Managing Your Deviations- A Hidden Menu!

Sep 29, 201416 min read

Deviation Actions

JenFruzz

Published: Sep 29, 2014

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Did You Know...

...DeviantART has a mass storage system of all your gallery deviations?
...you can manage all of your gallery deviations from one location?
...you can move deviations into "Storage" and essentially remove them from your gallery while preserving the page view, favorite, download, and other statistics?

THIS IS ALL 100% POSSIBLE!

Many of us have deviations in our galleries that you no longer have the computer file for and would be devastated if you lost them… Ever thought, "I really don't want to download each deviation to my computer or sta.sh but I just don't want them in my gallery any longer! Then there's a handful of deviations I want to turn off comments for. I wonder if this can be done all at once?" If this is you... Keep Reading!

Okay, Show Me How!

I admit I stumbled across the Manage Deviations section of website by pure chance, several years ago- and it is quite the hidden gem! So let’s get started. How do you find this page? Mouse over the "Submit" menu and select "Manage Deviations" as shown below:

So now you should be in a screen that looks a little something like below. Go ahead and pull down that menu as shown in this screenshot:

Look at all of these options! You can select as many deviations as you want and immediately apply any of those options to them, IN BATCH! This is much easier than individually going through your pieces and changing things one-by-one. Now it may seem inconvenient to only show the titles of your pieces (I've taken so many photos that I could NEVER remember them by title), never fear! Just hover your mouse over the title and a thumbnail of the deviation will pop up after a second.

Now... What is that "Store" option?

This is what I mentioned at the beginning of the article. If you have a deviation that you want completely removed from your page, but not from deviantART, then this is the option for you. Selecting a deviation and clicking "Store" will move the deviation to Storage. Your comments, favs, deviation views, etc. will be preserved but the piece will no longer be displayed in your gallery. You can see any deviations you have in storage by selecting the "Storage" menu off to the left . In the storage menu you also have the option to "Unstore" a deviation. Go check it out!

Hopefully this article will be of use to you! A lot of deviants don't know about it but it's great for all of us overly-organized individuals Feel free to leave a comment about the article or if you have any questions!