I heard about this at the MIVACON in Atlanta so thought I would give it a look see.
It reported 109 unreferenced images and looking down the list, I could see where they seemed to make sense for products that we have deleted from the store so I let it delete them.
Later I found that it also deleted images that were being used in other places in the store - like top category pages and other places so I had to replace the ones that were obvious and who knows what other image "holes" we have in the store now.
The Miva Support site says "If the Reference Count for an image is 0, that means the images is not being used."
Maybe it should say something like this instead:
"If the Reference Count for an image is 0, that means the image is not being used by a product as a thumbnail image, full sized image or additional image. However even though the reference count for an image is zero, that image may be used elsewhere in the store in other places (such as category pages) so you better look at them carefully to be sure you don't delete images you need in other places or you are going to have image "holes" in your store like JoseIbarra".
I understand that the feature is working as designed, but at least for me, it is not working as desired.
Remind me never to use that again.
It reported 109 unreferenced images and looking down the list, I could see where they seemed to make sense for products that we have deleted from the store so I let it delete them.
Later I found that it also deleted images that were being used in other places in the store - like top category pages and other places so I had to replace the ones that were obvious and who knows what other image "holes" we have in the store now.
The Miva Support site says "If the Reference Count for an image is 0, that means the images is not being used."
Maybe it should say something like this instead:
"If the Reference Count for an image is 0, that means the image is not being used by a product as a thumbnail image, full sized image or additional image. However even though the reference count for an image is zero, that image may be used elsewhere in the store in other places (such as category pages) so you better look at them carefully to be sure you don't delete images you need in other places or you are going to have image "holes" in your store like JoseIbarra".
I understand that the feature is working as designed, but at least for me, it is not working as desired.
Remind me never to use that again.
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