Flat File Delete Products and Variants

[Leanne]

Thanks, I will take a look at that.

[Mark Hood]

How are you all handling the removal of images associated with deleted products? I have a site that currently has 430 products to be deleted, and also has an extremely bloated graphics/00000001 folder that needs to be cleaned up. I'm leery of the Delete Unreferenced Images feature of Image Machine Management. How does it handle images that may be used in category headers or elsewhere on the site?

It deletes them best practice of course is to create different ones...

[delcorsets]

How are you all handling the removal of images associated with deleted products? I have a site that currently has 430 products to be deleted, and also has an extremely bloated graphics/00000001 folder that needs to be cleaned up. I'm leery of the Delete Unreferenced Images feature of Image Machine Management. How does it handle images that may be used in category headers or elsewhere on the site?

I'd love to know how that's handled as well. It would be great if the image uploader in Miva gave an option of two (or more) different destination folder locations - one for product images and one for other site images. That way users could more safely "Delete Unreferenced Images" without fear of accidentally losing header images, content page images, etc.

[Leanne]

It deletes them best practice of course is to create different ones...

Thanks for confirming. It's a bit of a conundrum as to which is worse: a bloated graphics/00000001 file, or giving store employees ftp access to upload non-product images into a different directory...

[Leanne]

I'd love to know how that's handled as well. It would be great if the image uploader in Miva gave an option of two (or more) different destination folder locations - one for product images and one for other site images. That way users could more safely "Delete Unreferenced Images" without fear of accidentally losing header images, content page images, etc.

Mark Hood has confirmed that it wipes the lot.

As I understand it the ability to customize upload directories is coming, but it will be a while.

[Mark Hood]

Mark Hood has confirmed that it wipes the lot.

As I understand it the ability to customize upload directories is coming, but it will be a while.

For a different site I maintain I set up a "dummy" inactive product to upload images from the admin (no ftp access needed).
It of course just adds to the graphics folder but they will not be deleted by the delete unreferenced process.