# Introducing duplicate asset detection in Media Area

[date: 2021-08-02T09:15:01.369+02:00]

Another day, another improvement to DatoCMS!

Building up from our recent addition of [MD5 metadata to assets](https://www.datocms.com/product-updates/search-assets-in-the-media-area-with-md5-hashes.md), we can now warn the user when there's an asset in the Media Area with the same signature as the file they're trying to upload:

(Video content)