diff --git a/includes/media.filter.inc b/includes/media.filter.inc
index b8f8065..8b33b31 100644
--- a/includes/media.filter.inc
+++ b/includes/media.filter.inc
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
  * @TODO: Rename this file?
  */
 
+define('MEDIA_TOKEN_REGEX', '/\[\[.*?\]\]/s');
+define('MEDIA_TOKEN_REGEX_ALT', '/%7B.*?%7D/s');
+
 /**
  * Implements hook_wysiwyg_include_directory().
  */
@@ -26,12 +29,188 @@ function media_wysiwyg_include_directory($type) {
  */
 function media_filter($text) {
   $text = ' ' . $text . ' ';
-  $text = preg_replace_callback("/\[\[.*?\]\]/s", 'media_token_to_markup', $text);
+  $text = preg_replace_callback(MEDIA_TOKEN_REGEX, 'media_token_to_markup', $text);
 
   return $text;
 }
 
 /**
+ * Implements hook_field_attach_insert().
+ *
+ * Track file usage for media files included in formatted text. Note that this
+ * is heavy-handed, and should be replaced when Drupal's filter system is
+ * context-aware.
+ */
+function media_field_attach_insert($entity_type, $entity) {
+  _media_filter_add_file_usage_from_fields($entity_type, $entity);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Implements hook_field_attach_update().
+ *
+ * @see media_field_attach_insert().
+ */
+function media_field_attach_update($entity_type, $entity) {
+  _media_filter_add_file_usage_from_fields($entity_type, $entity);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Add file usage from file references in an entity's text fields.
+ */
+function _media_filter_add_file_usage_from_fields($entity_type, $entity) {
+  // Track the total usage for files from all fields combined.
+  $entity_files = media_entity_field_count_files($entity_type, $entity);
+
+  list($entity_id, $entity_vid, $entity_bundle) = entity_extract_ids($entity_type, $entity);
+
+  // When an entity has revisions and then is saved again NOT as new version the
+  // previous revision of the entity has be loaded to get the last known good
+  // count of files. The saved data is compared against the last version
+  // so that a correct file count can be created for that (the current) version
+  // id. This code may assume some things about entities that are only true for
+  // node objects. This should be reviewed.
+  // @TODO this conditional can probably be condensed
+  if (empty($entity->revision) && empty($entity->old_vid) && empty($entity->is_new) && ! empty($entity->original)) {
+    $old_files = media_entity_field_count_files($entity_type, $entity->original);
+    foreach ($old_files as $fid => $old_file_count) {
+      // Were there more files on the node just prior to saving?
+      if (empty($entity_files[$fid])) {
+        $entity_files[$fid] = 0;
+      }
+      if ($old_file_count > $entity_files[$fid]) {
+        $deprecate = $old_file_count - $entity_files[$fid];
+        // Now deprecate this usage
+        $file = file_load($fid);
+        file_usage_delete($file, 'media', $entity_type, $entity_id, $deprecate);
+        // Usage is deleted, nothing more to do with this file
+        unset($entity_files[$fid]);
+      }
+      // There are the same number of files, nothing to do
+      elseif ($entity_files[$fid] ==  $old_file_count) {
+        unset($entity_files[$fid]);
+      }
+      // There are more files now, adjust the difference for the greater number.
+      // file_usage incrementing will happen below.
+      else {
+        // We just need to adjust what the file count will account for the new
+        // images that have been added since the increment process below will
+        // just add these additional ones in
+        $entity_files[$fid] = $entity_files[$fid] - $old_file_count;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Each entity revision counts for file usage. If versions are not enabled
+  // the file_usage table will have no entries for this because of the delete
+  // query above.
+  foreach ($entity_files as $fid => $entity_count) {
+    $file = file_load($fid);
+    file_usage_add($file, 'media', $entity_type, $entity_id, $entity_count);
+  }
+
+}
+
+/**
+ * Parse file references from an entity's text fields and return them as an array.
+ */
+function media_filter_parse_from_fields($entity_type, $entity) {
+  $file_references = array();
+
+  foreach (_media_filter_fields_with_text_filtering($entity_type, $entity) as $field_name) {
+    if ($field_items = field_get_items($entity_type, $entity, $field_name)) {
+      foreach ($field_items as $field_item) {
+        preg_match_all(MEDIA_TOKEN_REGEX, $field_item['value'], $matches);
+        foreach ($matches[0] as $tag) {
+          $tag = str_replace(array('[[', ']]'), '', $tag);
+          $tag_info = drupal_json_decode($tag);
+          if (isset($tag_info['fid']) && $tag_info['type'] == 'media') {
+            $file_references[] = $tag_info;
+          }
+        }
+
+        preg_match_all(MEDIA_TOKEN_REGEX_ALT, $field_item['value'], $matches_alt);
+        foreach ($matches_alt[0] as $tag) {
+          $tag = urldecode($tag);
+          $tag_info = drupal_json_decode($tag);
+          if (isset($tag_info['fid']) && $tag_info['type'] == 'media') {
+            $file_references[] = $tag_info;
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return $file_references;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns an array containing the names of all fields that perform text filtering.
+ */
+function _media_filter_fields_with_text_filtering($entity_type, $entity) {
+  list($entity_id, $revision_id, $bundle) = entity_extract_ids($entity_type, $entity);
+  $fields = field_info_instances($entity_type, $bundle);
+
+  // Get all of the fields on this entity that allow text filtering.
+  $fields_with_text_filtering = array();
+  foreach ($fields as $field_name => $field) {
+    if (!empty($field['settings']['text_processing'])) {
+      $fields_with_text_filtering[] = $field_name;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return $fields_with_text_filtering;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Utility function to get the file count in this entity
+ *
+ * @param type $entity
+ * @param type $entity_type
+ * @return int
+ */
+function media_entity_field_count_files($entity_type, $entity) {
+  $entity_files = array();
+  foreach (media_filter_parse_from_fields($entity_type, $entity) as $file_reference) {
+    if (empty($entity_files[$file_reference['fid']])) {
+      $entity_files[$file_reference['fid']] = 1;
+    }
+    else {
+      $entity_files[$file_reference['fid']]++;
+    }
+  }
+  return $entity_files;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Implements hook_entity_delete().
+ */
+function media_entity_delete($entity, $type) {
+  list($entity_id) = entity_extract_ids($type, $entity);
+
+  db_delete('file_usage')
+    ->condition('module', 'media')
+    ->condition('type', $type)
+    ->condition('id', $entity_id)
+    ->execute();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Implements hook_field_attach_delete_revision().
+ *
+ * @param type $entity_type
+ * @param type $entity
+ */
+function media_field_attach_delete_revision($entity_type, $entity) {
+  list($entity_id) = entity_extract_ids($entity_type, $entity);
+  $files = media_entity_field_count_files($entity_type, $entity);
+  foreach ($files as $fid => $count) {
+    if ($file = file_load($fid)) {
+      file_usage_delete($file, 'media', $entity_type , $entity_id, $count);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
  * Parses the contents of a CSS declaration block and returns a keyed array of property names and values.
  *
  * @param $declarations
diff --git a/media.info b/media.info
index 28b07cd..3398d7e 100644
--- a/media.info
+++ b/media.info
@@ -17,5 +17,6 @@ files[] = includes/media_views_plugin_display_media_browser.inc
 files[] = includes/media_views_plugin_style_media_browser.inc
 files[] = tests/media.test
 files[] = tests/media.entity.test
+files[] = tests/media.file.usage.test
 
 configure = admin/config/media/browser
diff --git a/tests/media.file.usage.test b/tests/media.file.usage.test
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6e9d03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/media.file.usage.test
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Tests for the file usage count with revisions patch ( in https://drupal.org/node/1268116#comment-6912728 ).
+ */
+
+class MediaFileUsageTest extends MediaTestHelper {
+    public static function getInfo() {
+    return array(
+      'name'        => t('File usage tracking'),
+      'description' => t('Tests tracking of usage for files added via a WYSIWYG interface'),
+      'group'       => t('Media'),
+    );
+  }
+
+  function setUp() {
+    parent::setUp(array('media', 'file_entity'));
+  }
+
+/**
+ * Tests the tracking of file usages for files submitted via the WYSIWYG editor.
+ *
+*/
+  public function TestFileUsageIncrementing() {
+    // Create and log in a user.
+    $admin = $this->drupalCreateUser(array('administer nodes', 'create article content'));
+    $user = $this->drupalCreateUser();
+    $this->drupalLogin($admin);
+    // Create a file.
+    $this->drupalGet('node/add/article');
+    $files = $this->drupalGetTestFiles('image');
+    $file = file_save($files[0]);
+    $fid = $file->fid;
+    //There should be zero usages prior to node creation,
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $this->assertEqual(empty($file_uses), TRUE, t('Created a new file with zero usages.'));
+
+    function generate_file_usage_markup($fid, $count=0) {
+      //creates markup that adds our file to the body field.
+      $file_usage_markup = '';
+      $i = 0;
+      //it adds as many instances of the file as we specify with $count.
+      while ($i<$count) {
+        //set the variables that go in the markup
+        $view_mode = 'preview';
+        $type = 'media';
+        $attributes = array(
+          'height'  => 180,
+          'width'   => 180,
+          'classes' => 'media-element file_preview',
+        );
+
+        //build the markup
+        $fid_set = '"fid":"' . $fid . '"';
+        $view_mode_set = '"view_mode":"' . $view_mode . '"';
+        $type_set = '"type":"' . $type . '"';
+        $attribute_set = '"attributes":{';
+          $attribute_set .= '"height":' . $attributes['height'] . ',';
+          $attribute_set .= '"width":' . $attributes['width'] . ',';
+          $attribute_set .= '"class":"' . $attributes['classes'] . '"';
+          $attribute_set .='}';
+
+        //put it all together
+        $file_usage_markup .= '<p>[[{';
+
+          $file_usage_markup .= $fid_set . ',';
+          $file_usage_markup .= $view_mode_set . ',';
+          $file_usage_markup .= $type_set . ',';
+          $file_usage_markup .= $attribute_set;
+
+        $file_usage_markup .= '}]]</p>';
+
+        $i++;
+        }
+
+      return $file_usage_markup;
+    }
+
+    // Create an article.
+    $edit = array(
+      'title' => $this->randomName(8),
+      'body[und][0][value]' => generate_file_usage_markup($fid, 1),
+    );
+    // First argument is the URL, then the value array and the third is the label the button that should be "clicked".
+    $this->drupalPost('node/add/article', $edit, t('Save'));
+    //and refresh our value for file_uses too.
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+
+    // Get info about the node so we can grab the right file to test.
+    $node = $this->drupalGetNodeByTitle($edit['title']);
+    $nid = $node->nid;
+
+    // Verify that the file usage was incremented when we added it to the node.
+    $this->assertEqual($node->vid, 1, 'New node with one file inserted, vid == 1');
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 1, t('File usage == 1'));
+
+    // Create a new revision that has the file on it once.
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $node->body['und'][0]['value'] = generate_file_usage_markup($fid, 1);
+    $node->revision = TRUE;
+    node_save($node);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $vid = $node->vid;
+    $this->assertEqual($vid, 2, 'Resaved node with vid == 2.');
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 2, t('Resaved node has file usages == 2.'));
+
+    // Create a new revision that has the file on it twice.
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $node->body['und'][0]['value'] = generate_file_usage_markup($fid, 2);
+    $node->revision = TRUE;
+    node_save($node);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $vid = $node->vid;
+    $this->assertEqual($vid, 3, 'Resaved node with vid == 3.');
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 4, t('Resaved node has file usages == 4.'));
+
+    // Create a new revision that has no file on it.
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $node->body['und'][0]['value'] = 'no file in body';
+    $node->revision = TRUE;
+    node_save($node);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $vid = $node->vid;
+    $this->assertEqual($vid, 4, 'Resaved node with new revision, vid == 4.');
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 4, t('Resaved node has no file in body, file usages == 4.'));
+
+    // Create a new revision that has the file on it once.
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $node->body['und'][0]['value'] = generate_file_usage_markup($fid, 1);
+    $node->revision = TRUE;
+    node_save($node);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $vid = $node->vid;
+    $this->assertEqual($vid, 5, 'Resaved node with new revision, vid == 5.');
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 5, t('Resaved node has one file in body, file usages == 5.'));
+
+    // Delete a revision that has the file on it once.
+    node_revision_delete(2);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 4, 'Deleted revision with a usage (vid==2), file usage == 4.');
+
+    // Delete a revision that has no file on it.
+    node_revision_delete(5);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 4, 'Deleted revision with no usage (vid==5), file usage == 4');
+
+    // Delete a revision that has the file on it twice.
+    node_revision_delete(3);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 2, 'Deleted revision with two usages (vid==3), file usages == 2');
+
+    // Create a new revision that has the file on it twice.
+    $node->body['und'][0]['value'] = generate_file_usage_markup($fid, 2);
+    $node->revision = TRUE;
+    node_save($node);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $this->assertEqual($node->vid, 6, 'We\'re looking at the revision with vid == 6.');
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 4, t('New revision has file on it twice, file usages == 4.'));
+
+    // Re-save current revision with file on it once instead of twice.
+    $node->body['und'][0]['value'] = generate_file_usage_markup($fid, 1);
+    node_save($node);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $this->assertEqual($node->vid, 6, 'We\'re looking at the same revision, vid == 6.');
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $this->assertEqual($file_uses['media']['node'][$nid], 3, t('Resaved revision has one file in the body now, instead of two. file usages == 3.'));
+
+    // Delete the node and check that usages are at zero.
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    node_delete($nid);
+    $node = node_load($nid);
+    $this->assertEqual(empty($node), TRUE, 'The node has been deleted.');
+    media_entity_delete($file, 'file');
+    $file_uses = file_usage_list($file);
+    $this->assertEqual(empty($file_uses), TRUE, 'The file is no longer in use. There is no recorded usage.');
+  }
+}
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