Hi Lefteris,
Hope you are okay!
I'm currently running version 1.5.3.1.7.0 of showtime gallery on my joomla site, and I'm aiming to get a subscription and upgrade to 1.7.0
I have notice however what it seems to be a significant flaw on the design of showtime gallery, when checking the space (media/showtime/storage) on my hosting site, it looks like each gallery is composed of 4 folders:
main
preview
source
thumbnail
The folders "main" and "source" contain exactly the same size of pictures, intrinsically duplicated pictures, thus taking a load on the hosted space. I've compressed all the pictures but still the galleries, when we consider that main and source are exactly the same folder, take a lot of space
Is the newer version of showtime gallery coded better? preventing duplicated folders for each gallery? It would be great if instead of 'main' and 'source' we could have only one folder, thus reducing space
Please let me know if possible if the newer version 1.7.0 have addressed this issue. I don't want to increase my billing in hosting space just because the showtime gallery duplicates the pictures contents per gallery!
Thank you
Manny
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Posted in ‘Showtime Image Gallery’
Each gallery has duplicated pictures
Latest post by Lefteris Kavadas on Monday, 18 November 2024 13:45 EET
Saturday, 16 November 2024 09:45 EET
Manny Munoz
Monday, 18 November 2024 13:45 EET
Lefteris Kavadas
Hi Manny,
Thank you for your question!
In Showtime Image Gallery, “main images” and “source images” serve different purposes. Main images can be resized directly within the gallery settings, while source images refer to the original files uploaded.
Starting with Showtime Image Gallery v1.6.0, we introduced an option to resize source images as well, allowing you to optimize disk space usage. However, please note that this feature only applies to newly uploaded images.
Source images remain essential for certain functionality, such as regenerating all thumbnails from scratch using the “Generate Images” button in the administration panel. Because of this dependency, we cannot remove source images entirely.
I hope this clarifies the distinction and functionality. Feel free to reach out if you have any further questions!
Best regards,
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