# How to make sure that the media file is saved on disk ?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-make-sure-that-the-media-file-is-saved-on-disk/42277>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 3, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-make-sure-that-the-media-file-is-saved-on-disk/42277 "2014-03-03T02:01:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jessie\_jess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@jessie\_jess](https://community.wowza.com/u/jessie_jess)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-make-sure-that-the-media-file-is-saved-on-disk/42277/1 "2014-03-03T02:01:00Z")

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i have an http source when i request the first time the edge server should get the media and save it on disk in the mediacache folder but i couldn’t check it, is it saved in chunks or how is it saved?

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**Author:** ![Zoran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/zoran/32/385_2.png) [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-make-sure-that-the-media-file-is-saved-on-disk/42277/2 "2014-03-03T19:30:33Z")

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Hi,

The best way to confirm that the media file are being retrieved by MediaCache is to check the size of your mediacache folder.

You should see the size of that folder increase when a streaming client requests a VOD file that was not previously cached.

Zoran

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-make-sure-that-the-media-file-is-saved-on-disk/42277/3 "2014-03-07T00:47:09Z")

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Also, yes, it files are saved in chunks based on what was played back by some client.

Richard