Your changes could not be saved because this SharePoint web site has exceeded the storage quota limit

Your changes could not be saved because this SharePoint Web site has exceeded the storage quota limit. You must save your work to another location. Contact your administrator to change the quota limits for the Web site.

Sometimes you will get the above error in SharePoint. In this post, we will discuss how to resolve the issue. Sometimes you will get the error while creating a list or document library or sometimes you will get the error while saving List as a template.

This error occurs if the Web site has exceeded the storage quota limit. A quota specifies the storage limits so that it defines the maximum amount of data that can be stored in a site collection.

You can increase the quota limit from SharePoint Central Administration. There are different ways we can do it:

One way:

Open SharePoint Central Administration, then from the Application Management Page section go to the SharePoint Site Management section, and there click on Quota Templates.

Another way:

Also, you can change by using the TSADM command. Below is the full command:

stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname max-template-document-size -propertyvalue 524288000

This way we can fix the error Your changes could not be saved because this sharepoint web site has exceeded the storage quota limit error in SharePoint. And, it will fix the error, sharepoint this site has exceeded its maximum file storage limit.

For SharePoint Online

If you are getting the “Quota for this site has been exceeded. Changes to your data cannot be saved” in SharePoint Online, then we need to increase the site storage quota in the SharePoint Online admin center.

You can follow this article on How to increase SharePoint Online site storage.

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