diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 8c3cf7b273..1809df966c 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ require_once('include/features.php');
 define ( 'FRIENDICA_PLATFORM',     'Friendica');
 define ( 'FRIENDICA_VERSION',      '3.0.1538' );
 define ( 'DFRN_PROTOCOL_VERSION',  '2.23'    );
-define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',      1156      );
+define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',      1157      );
 
 define ( 'EOL',                    "<br />\r\n"     );
 define ( 'ATOM_TIME',              'Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z' );
diff --git a/database.sql b/database.sql
index 0f82616f7b..369637fe60 100644
--- a/database.sql
+++ b/database.sql
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `photo` (
   `type` CHAR(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'image/jpeg',
   `height` smallint(6) NOT NULL,
   `width` smallint(6) NOT NULL,
+  `datasize` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
   `data` mediumblob NOT NULL,
   `scale` tinyint(3) NOT NULL,
   `profile` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
@@ -789,6 +790,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `photo` (
   KEY `resource-id` (`resource-id`),
   KEY `album` (`album`),
   KEY `scale` (`scale`),
+  KEY `datasize` (`datasize`),
   KEY `profile` (`profile`)
 ) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
 
diff --git a/include/Photo.php b/include/Photo.php
index 8fd581977d..69b08f6291 100644
--- a/include/Photo.php
+++ b/include/Photo.php
@@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ class Photo {
                 `album` = '%s',
                 `height` = %d,
                 `width` = %d,
+				`datasize` = %d,
                 `data` = '%s',
                 `scale` = %d,
                 `profile` = %d,
@@ -604,6 +605,7 @@ class Photo {
                 dbesc($album),
                 intval($this->getHeight()),
                 intval($this->getWidth()),
+				dbesc(strlen($this->imageString())),
                 dbesc($this->imageString()),
                 intval($scale),
                 intval($profile),
@@ -616,8 +618,8 @@ class Photo {
         }
         else {
             $r = q("INSERT INTO `photo`
-                ( `uid`, `contact-id`, `guid`, `resource-id`, `created`, `edited`, `filename`, type, `album`, `height`, `width`, `data`, `scale`, `profile`, `allow_cid`, `allow_gid`, `deny_cid`, `deny_gid` )
-                VALUES ( %d, %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, %d, '%s', %d, %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s' )",
+                ( `uid`, `contact-id`, `guid`, `resource-id`, `created`, `edited`, `filename`, type, `album`, `height`, `width`, `datasize`, `data`, `scale`, `profile`, `allow_cid`, `allow_gid`, `deny_cid`, `deny_gid` )
+                VALUES ( %d, %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, %d, %d, '%s', %d, %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s' )",
                 intval($uid),
                 intval($cid),
                 dbesc($guid),
@@ -629,6 +631,7 @@ class Photo {
                 dbesc($album),
                 intval($this->getHeight()),
                 intval($this->getWidth()),
+				dbesc(strlen($this->imageString())),
                 dbesc($this->imageString()),
                 intval($scale),
                 intval($profile),
diff --git a/mod/photos.php b/mod/photos.php
index 08dc0e0fc5..efccb0e10a 100644
--- a/mod/photos.php
+++ b/mod/photos.php
@@ -1027,19 +1027,15 @@ function photos_content(&$a) {
 		$default_upload = '<input id="photos-upload-choose" type="file" name="userfile" /> 	<div class="photos-upload-submit-wrapper" >
 		<input type="submit" name="submit" value="' . t('Submit') . '" id="photos-upload-submit" /> </div>';
 
-
-		$r = q("select sum(octet_length(data)) as total from photo where uid = %d and scale = 0 and album != 'Contact Photos' ",
-			intval($a->data['user']['uid'])
-		);
-
-
+		$usage_message = '';
 		$limit = service_class_fetch($a->data['user']['uid'],'photo_upload_limit');
 		if($limit !== false) {
+
+			$r = q("select sum(datasize) as total from photo where uid = %d and scale = 0 and album != 'Contact Photos' ",
+				intval($a->data['user']['uid'])
+			);
 			$usage_message = sprintf( t("You have used %1$.2f Mbytes of %2$.2f Mbytes photo storage."), $r[0]['total'] / 1024000, $limit / 1024000 );
 		}
-		else {
-			$usage_message = sprintf( t('You have used %1$.2f Mbytes of photo storage.'), $r[0]['total'] / 1024000 );
- 		}
 
 
 		$tpl = get_markup_template('photos_upload.tpl');
diff --git a/update.php b/update.php
index 3d3eec6f97..b29afdb741 100644
--- a/update.php
+++ b/update.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
-define( 'UPDATE_VERSION' , 1156 );
+define( 'UPDATE_VERSION' , 1157 );
 
 /**
  *
@@ -1362,3 +1362,10 @@ function update_1155() {
 	return UPDATE_FAILED;
 }
 
+function update_1156() {
+	$r = q("ALTER TABLE `photo` ADD `datasize` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' AFTER `width` ,
+ADD INDEX ( `datasize` ) ");
+
+	if(!$r) return UPDATE_FAILED;
+	return UPDATE_SUCCESS;
+}