diff --git a/journal.rst b/journal.rst
index 3526fbb..abc17fa 100644
--- a/journal.rst
+++ b/journal.rst
@@ -285,3 +285,46 @@ I am honestly having a hard time working on this "physical product" feature & i'
 I have a desire to table this project, temporarily at least.
 
 
+
+Tue Sep 13 03:22:14 PM EDT 2022
+=======================================
+
+This is a script to recompute the file_bytes & total_file_bytes of every Product object of the database.
+
+It will query the s3 backend and fix our meta data regarding content length for our capacity usage.
+
+
+```
+
+import botocore.exceptions
+
+# begin the database transaction.
+request.tm.begin()
+
+all_products = models.get_all_products(request.dbsession)
+
+for product in all_products:
+    for file_key in product.file_keys:
+
+        try:
+            response = request.secure_uploads_client.head_object(
+                Bucket=request.app["bucket.secure_uploads"],
+                Key="{}/{}".format(product.s3_path, file_key)
+            ) 
+        except botocore.exceptions.ClientError:
+            # skip the rest of this iteration.
+            continue
+
+        product_content_length = response["ContentLength"]
+
+        tmp_file_bytes = product.file_bytes
+        tmp_file_bytes[file_key] = product_content_length
+        product.file_bytes = tmp_file_bytes
+
+    request.dbsession.add(product)
+    request.dbsession.flush()
+
+# commit/close the database transaction to really make changes.
+request.tm.commit()
+
+```
diff --git a/make_post_sell/models/product.py b/make_post_sell/models/product.py
index f8313ba..a895107 100644
--- a/make_post_sell/models/product.py
+++ b/make_post_sell/models/product.py
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ class Product(RBase, Base):
 
     json_file_metadata = Column(UnicodeText, default=DEFAULT_FILE_METADATA)
 
+    json_file_bytes = Column(UnicodeText, default="{}")
+
+    total_file_bytes = Column(BigInteger, nullable=False, default=0)
+
     # a denormalized json field to relate products to bundles, and vice versa.
     json_bundle_metadata = Column(
         UnicodeText, default=DEFAULT_BUNDLE_METADATA, nullable=False
@@ -265,6 +269,15 @@ class Product(RBase, Base):
             return self._file_metadata
         return {}
 
+    @property
+    def file_bytes(self):
+        return json.loads(self.json_file_bytes)
+
+    @file_bytes.setter
+    def file_bytes(self, new_dict):
+        self.json_file_bytes = json.dumps(new_dict)
+        self.total_file_bytes = sum(self.file_bytes.values())
+
     @property
     def extensions(self):
         return self.file_metadata.get("extensions", {})
@@ -274,7 +287,6 @@ class Product(RBase, Base):
         return self.file_metadata.get("originals", {})
 
     def set_file_metadata(self, file_key, extension, original_filename):
-        self.updated_timestamp = now_timestamp()
         tmp = self.file_metadata
         tmp["extensions"][file_key] = extension
         tmp["originals"][file_key] = original_filename
diff --git a/make_post_sell/scripts/alembic/versions/7217f39a20a8_product_file_bytes.py b/make_post_sell/scripts/alembic/versions/7217f39a20a8_product_file_bytes.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc14339
--- /dev/null
+++ b/make_post_sell/scripts/alembic/versions/7217f39a20a8_product_file_bytes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+"""product file bytes
+
+Revision ID: 7217f39a20a8
+Revises: d38d649cb682
+Create Date: 2022-09-13 14:57:57.100700
+
+"""
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision = '7217f39a20a8'
+down_revision = 'd38d649cb682'
+branch_labels = None
+depends_on = None
+
+from make_post_sell.models.meta import UUIDType
+
+
+def upgrade():
+    op.add_column('mps_product', sa.Column('json_file_bytes', sa.UnicodeText(), nullable=True, server_default="{}"))
+    op.add_column('mps_product', sa.Column('total_file_bytes', sa.BigInteger(), nullable=False, server_default="0"))
+
+
+def downgrade():
+    op.drop_column('mps_product', 'total_file_bytes')
+    op.drop_column('mps_product', 'json_file_bytes')
diff --git a/make_post_sell/views/product.py b/make_post_sell/views/product.py
index 348e1e5..db12a62 100644
--- a/make_post_sell/views/product.py
+++ b/make_post_sell/views/product.py
@@ -272,7 +272,19 @@ def product_edit(request):
             Bucket=s3_webhook_bucket,
             Key=s3_webhook_key,
         )
-        
+      
+        # get file size & store in our database. 
+        response = request.secure_uploads_client.head_object(
+            Bucket=request.app["bucket.secure_uploads"],
+            Key="{}/{}".format(product.s3_path, file_key)
+        )
+
+        product_content_length = response["ContentLength"]
+
+        tmp_file_bytes = product.file_bytes
+        tmp_file_bytes[file_key] = product_content_length
+        product.file_bytes = tmp_file_bytes
+
         product.stamp_updated_timestamp()
         request.dbsession.add(product)
         request.dbsession.flush()