Understanding attribute limits in Sanity projects

Hi there 👋 I have reached the attribute limit on a project. I am trying to remove some content we no longer need in the hope it will bring the attribute count down, but isn’t going down. Am I missing the point of attributes here? Any suggestions would be great, thank you 🙏

Removing content will only be effective if you’re removing all of the content that uses a particular unique path. If one document still uses that path the attribute limit won’t go down.

I assumed this might be the case after pondering over it. Thank you for coming back to me I appreciate the confirmation 🙂

For sure! It’s tricky wrap your head around.

Hey - I was wondering if I could seek help with this again please? We have removed the content from the respective fields but the attribute limit hasn’t changed (I’m fairly certain it’s increased actually 🙈). I haven’t removed the fields from the schema though, do I have to remove the fields after the content, or should the content removal reduce the attribute count? Thank you 🙏

Removing the content should get rid of the paths, since the backend isn’t aware of your schema definitions. It sounds like there are possibly still some documents that are using those paths. They could not be visible within your Studio if they were in documents that you stopped using. Have you tried using GROQ to find them all?

Hey thanks for coming back to me, I’ll try running some queries to see if I can identify them