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5/10/2011 12:33:27 PM
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Full Size Images

Hi Joe,

At the moment I design a web site where the customer would use often Image Gallery. The problem is the large size from full size images. They are circa 50x larger than Web images and aren't used. This has two disadvantages;

A. Web site would unnecessary larger
B. Uploading files takes long time.

I read in an older thread that full size images used in some scenarios and needed. Therefore my suggestion is; Building an option (perhaps in web.config) which would upload full size images so large as Web images. I mean exactly; FullSizeImages folder and these images exists but in fact they would Web images.

I hope it's realizable and you find my suggestion useful.

Thanks,
Erhan

5/10/2011 12:40:55 PM
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Re: Full Size Images

Hi Erhan,

A. We could add a setting to discard the full size images and make them not available. Disk space is cheap and most hosting gives plenty of disk space though so it is not a big concern most of the time. I will add a wish list item in our project tracker for this.

B. Nothing we do can affect this because in order to take less time the file size would have to be reduced on the user machine before upload and we have no ability to do that. The thumbnail and web size images are created on the server after uploading by processing the full size image.

Best,

Joe

5/10/2011 1:26:25 PM
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Re: Full Size Images

Hi Joe,

Thanks for detailed answer.

If I understand you right, full size images must be uploaded but then you can make them not available. Do you mean; these images would be deleted automatically or we can delete these files manually?

FYI: Normally disk space is cheap but if you use VPS or dedicated servers in Turkey they are not cheap.

Best,
Erhan

5/10/2011 4:48:46 PM
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Re: Full Size Images

Hi Erhan,

We cannot process the image file at all until it is uploaded so, the file will be whatever size it is. So "Full Size" just means whatever size the file is when the user uploads it, it could be a big file or a small file, we only can find out the size after it is uploaded.

But no matter what size it is, the original uploaded file is considered "Full Size".

After it is uploaded we can resize it.

What I'm saying is we could make a config option or a feature setting to automatically delete the original file after we make the thumbnail and web size. This is what I put in our project tracker and this can help if disk space is a concern.

Best,

Joe

5/11/2011 12:47:01 PM
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Re: Full Size Images

Hi Joe,

This option is a good solution, it would reduce disk space. Then I don't need to worry about it.

Thank you very much,

Erhan

5/12/2011 9:56:59 AM
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Re: Full Size Images

Hi Erhan,

Thank you for the beer! Much appreciated.

Cheers,

Joe

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