7) Guardar a sua primeira digitalização
How to Upgrade/Downgrade the Storage of Your First Scan
When you upload your first scan to 3DICOM, it’s automatically stored in the cloud using the storage option you selected during the upload process. If you need a refresher on how uploading works, you can always revisit Uploading Your First DICOM Series.
This beginner-friendly guide explains where your scan appears, how the file structure workse how to manage your storage as you become familiar with the platform.
Where Your Scan Appears After Upload
Once your upload has finished processing, your scan will appear in two key locations:
1. Recent Activity Table (Recommended for Beginners)
O Atividade recente table appears on both the Dashboard and Upload pages. It provides a simplified list of your most recent actions and files.
You’ll typically see your newly uploaded scan listed right away here.
O Atividade recente table offers:
- A clean, easy-to-read overview
- A quick actions menu, including storage management, sharing, audit history, and deletion
- Automatic updates as activity occurs (e.g., when you upload a new scan, or one is shared with you)
For first-time users, this is the easiest place to locate, open, and manage your scan storage.
2. Scans/Records Section (Your Full File Hub)
O Digitalizações/Registros section is the complete archive for all imaging files uploaded to your account, shared with you directly, or provided via a tenant you’re part of.
Here, 3DICOM organises all data according to the DICOM standard, meaning you must navigate through a hierarchical file structure to perform actions initiated at specific levels.
Patient → Study → Series
This structure gives you full clinical organisation, but can feel more complex for new users. Storage management is available here too, but you’ll need to navigate to the Study level to locate the Series to see the action option.
If you’d like to understand how storage types differ before navigating the hierarchy, see Understanding 3DICOM’s Storage Options.
Understanding Storage Types
During upload, you selected either Short-Term Storage or Long-Term Storage.
A summary of each storage option is provided below:
Armazenamento de curto prazo
- Free for 7 days
- Secure, time-limited cloud storage
- Ideal for temporary or quick-access scans
- Files are automatically deleted after 7 days unless moved to long-term storage
Armazenamento de longo prazo
- Costs 5 credits per scan per year
- Lasts for 365 days
- Secure, persistent cloud storage
- Best for scans you want to keep available long-term
- Ideal for clinical cases, personal imaging histories, or ongoing follow-up
If you’d like a deeper explanation of each storage option, see Understanding 3DICOM’s Storage Options
How to Find and Manage Scan Storage
Using the Recent Activity Table (Easiest)
The Recent Activity table is the easiest location to view and update the enabled storage option for a scan that has been recently uploaded or shared with you (directly or via a tenant).
The steps below show you where the storage option for a scan is displayed, and how to update it.
1. Faça login na sua conta 3DICOM. Você será direcionado automaticamente para o painel.
On the Dashboard, you can see at a glance the percentage of scans saved to Long-Term Cloud Storage versus Short-Term Storage. And on the Recent Activity Table, under the Storage column, you can see which storage option has been chosen for a scan.2. Find your scan in the Recent Activity table.
3. Select the three-dot icon 
in the Actions column to open the actions drop-down. 4. Under the drop-down, select ‘Upgrade Storage’ or ‘Downgrade Storage’ to open a Storage dialogue box. 
5. Confirm your selection by clicking the ‘Upgrade’ or Downgrade’ option.The option that appears is based on your original scan selection.
After the selection has been confirmed, you will see the active storage location update for your scan in the Recent Activity table.Monitoring Your Stored Scans
Dashboard Tracking
3DICOM offers unlimited storage, so you never need to worry about running out of space or managing strict limits. Instead of tracking storage limits, the Dashboard includes a visual overview that helps you understand how your scans are distributed across storage types.
On the Dashboard, you’ll see a small visual aid that highlights:
- The percentage of scans in Long-Term Storage (indicated in Green)
- The percentage of scans in Short-Term Storage (indicated in Yellow)
This overview gives you a quick snapshot of how you’re using storage and helps you recognise when important scans may still be sitting in short-term storage where they’ll expire after 7 days.
If you notice a high percentage in short-term storage, it may be a good time to review recent uploads and move anything important into long-term storage before expiry.
Email Alerts for Expiring Scans
To help you avoid losing important files, 3DICOM automatically sends you notifications (via email and on your account) when a scan stored in Short-Term Storage is approaching its expiry. These emails give you time to review the scan and, if needed, move it into Long-Term Storage (365 days) before it’s permanently deleted.
This combination of the dashboard visual and timely email alerts makes it easy to stay on top of your stored scans without needing to manually track expiry dates.
Best Practices for First-Time Users
To make storing your first scan smooth and stress-free:
- Explorar o Digitalizações/Registros section once you feel comfortable navigating DICOM folders
- Use the Atividade recente table for quick access and simple management
- Move important scans to Armazenamento de longo prazo for 5 credits to keep your file safe and accessible for 365 days.
- Usar Armazenamento de curto prazo for temporary files, or quick reviews.
- Explorar o Digitalizações/Registros section once you feel comfortable navigating the DICOM folder structure.
What’s Next?
Now that you know how to find and manage your first stored scan, you’re ready to explore what 3DICOM can do next.
Continue learning with the following articles:
Perguntas frequentes e solução de problemas
Find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions around storing scans in 3DICOM below.
My scan isn’t appearing in the Recent Activity table.
If the scan hasn’t been uploaded or shared with you recently, it may not appear in the Atividade recente table. If this is the case, you can use the Digitalizações/Registros section instead to locate your scan.
For a detailed explanation of navigating the Digitalizações/Registros section, see our getting strated guide – 6) Navigating your Scans/Records
Can expired short-term scans be restored?
What if there’s no option to change the storage for a scan?
Why can’t I move my scan to long-term storage?
Enabling cloud storage in 3DICOM allows you to securely store and access your DICOM series for up to a year, beyond the default 7-day limit. Here’s how to turn on cloud storage for your files:
Step 1: Access ‘Scans/Records’
After logging in, navigate to the Scans/Records section.
This is where you’ll find all all medical imaging files and related reports uploaded to your account or shared with you directly or via a tenant to which you have been granted access.
Etapa 2: alternar o armazenamento em nuvem
Ao lado de cada série DICOM, você verá uma opção para habilitar armazenamento em nuvem.Basta clicar no ícone de nuvem ou botão de alternância de armazenamento.Etapa 3: Confirmar
Siga os prompts para confirmar que você deseja armazenar esta série DICOM na nuvem. Isso protegerá seus arquivos e estenderá sua disponibilidade por até um ano.
Etapa 4: gerencie seu armazenamento em nuvem
Você pode gerenciar ou desabilitar o armazenamento em nuvem a qualquer momento, revisitando o Todos os arquivos seção e desativar a opção de armazenamento em nuvem para séries específicas caso não sejam mais necessárias.
Por que habilitar o armazenamento em nuvem?
Acesso mais longo: Estende o período de retenção de 7 dias para um ano inteiro.Segurança: Os arquivos são criptografados e armazenados com segurança, garantindo a proteção dos seus dados médicos.Conveniência: Acesse facilmente suas imagens médicas de qualquer dispositivo, a qualquer hora.You can think of the Source Tenant as a location or folder where the Scan originates. When you upload a file yourself, your email will be shown. If the file has/is being shared with you from elsewhere this will be indicated.
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