diff --git a/app/Jobs/InternalPipeline/RecalculateAllUserStoragePipeline.php b/app/Jobs/InternalPipeline/RecalculateAllUserStoragePipeline.php
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+<?php
+
+namespace App\Jobs\InternalPipeline;
+
+use App\Models\User;
+use App\Services\UserStorageService;
+use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldBeUniqueUntilProcessing;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
+use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
+use Illuminate\Queue\Middleware\WithoutOverlapping;
+use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
+
+/**
+ * One-off backfill that recomputes users.storage_used from actual media.
+ *
+ * Repairs accounts whose cached storage counter drifted upward before the
+ * upload/delete self-heal logic existed, unblocking users stuck at the
+ * account size limit despite low real usage (#7169). Safe to run repeatedly:
+ * each user is recomputed from source, so it is idempotent.
+ */
+class RecalculateAllUserStoragePipeline implements ShouldBeUniqueUntilProcessing, ShouldQueue
+{
+    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
+
+    public $timeout = 3600;
+
+    public $tries = 1;
+
+    public $maxExceptions = 1;
+
+    public $failOnTimeout = true;
+
+    /**
+     * The number of seconds after which the job's unique lock will be released.
+     *
+     * @var int
+     */
+    public $uniqueFor = 7200;
+
+    /**
+     * Get the unique ID for the job.
+     */
+    public function uniqueId(): string
+    {
+        return 'ip:recalculate-all-user-storage';
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the middleware the job should pass through.
+     *
+     * @return array<int, object>
+     */
+    public function middleware(): array
+    {
+        return [(new WithoutOverlapping('ip:recalculate-all-user-storage'))->shared()->dontRelease()];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Execute the job.
+     */
+    public function handle(): void
+    {
+        User::whereNull('status')
+            ->chunkById(500, function ($users) {
+                foreach ($users as $user) {
+                    UserStorageService::recalculateUpdateStorageUsed($user->id);
+                }
+            });
+    }
+}
diff --git a/database/migrations/2026_09_10_000001_backfill_user_storage_used.php b/database/migrations/2026_09_10_000001_backfill_user_storage_used.php
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+<?php
+
+use App\Jobs\InternalPipeline\RecalculateAllUserStoragePipeline;
+use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
+
+return new class extends Migration
+{
+    /**
+     * Repair storage_used counters that drifted before the self-heal logic
+     * existed (#7169). The recalculation is dispatched to the queue rather than
+     * run inline so the deploy is not blocked while every user is recomputed.
+     *
+     * The job is idempotent (recomputes each user from source) and unique, so a
+     * re-run of this migration or a duplicate dispatch is harmless.
+     */
+    public function up(): void
+    {
+        RecalculateAllUserStoragePipeline::dispatch()->onQueue('low');
+    }
+
+    public function down(): void
+    {
+        // Data backfill only; nothing to reverse.
+    }
+};
diff --git a/tests/Feature/InternalPipeline/RecalculateAllUserStoragePipelineTest.php b/tests/Feature/InternalPipeline/RecalculateAllUserStoragePipelineTest.php
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+<?php
+
+use App\Jobs\InternalPipeline\RecalculateAllUserStoragePipeline;
+use App\Models\Media;
+use App\Models\User;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\LazilyRefreshDatabase;
+
+uses(LazilyRefreshDatabase::class);
+
+function makeUserMedia(User $user, int $bytes): Media
+{
+    return Media::create([
+        'status_id' => null,
+        'profile_id' => $user->profile->id,
+        'user_id' => $user->id,
+        'media_path' => 'public/m/_v2/1/'.uniqid().'.jpeg',
+        'mime' => 'image/jpeg',
+        'size' => $bytes,
+        'order' => 1,
+    ]);
+}
+
+/*
+| The backfill job repairs storage_used counters that drifted before the
+| self-heal logic existed (#7169). It recomputes every active user from their
+| actual media, so stale inflated values are corrected in bulk.
+*/
+
+it('recalculates storage_used from actual media for all active users', function () {
+    $a = User::factory()->create();
+    $b = User::factory()->create();
+    $a->refresh();
+    $b->refresh();
+
+    // Both start with wildly inflated stale counters.
+    foreach ([$a, $b] as $u) {
+        $u->storage_used = 999999;
+        $u->storage_used_updated_at = now()->subYear();
+        $u->save();
+    }
+
+    makeUserMedia($a, 400000); // 400 KB real usage
+    // $b has no media.
+
+    (new RecalculateAllUserStoragePipeline)->handle();
+
+    $a->refresh();
+    $b->refresh();
+    expect((int) $a->storage_used)->toBe(400);
+    expect((int) $b->storage_used)->toBe(0);
+});