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styleforum · February 5th, 2008, 01:20 AM

This is really not the way this should work. I know you're going to tell me it works the way it's supposed to, but come on. I had like 40 photos that were in two categories at once. I emptied one of the categories because I didn't want them in there, and there doesn't seem to be another way to get a picture out of a category once it's in two. I finished doing it and all the image files were gone?! The photos still had entries! Luckily I know I can just upload all the files again, move them to the right data dir and run rebuild thumbs/mediums on them, but really, this is horrible. Empty Category should check to see if the images are still in a category and NOT DELETE THEM IF THEY ARE. You can't tell me you meant to have a whole bunch of leftover entries with everything but the photo itself.

Oh yeah, and how are you supposed to remove additional categories from an image? I tried changing it to the same one it's in, but that just adds the same category as both the main cat and the alt cat. Ideally you should be able to delete any or all categories from an image, and if you delete all then it goes to a queue or in an "uncategorized" folder of some kind.

February 5th, 2008, 01:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
styleforum Member Verified Customer Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 55	Holy crap, emptying a category deletes all the photos from disk? This is really not the way this should work. I know you're going to tell me it works the way it's supposed to, but come on. I had like 40 photos that were in two categories at once. I emptied one of the categories because I didn't want them in there, and there doesn't seem to be another way to get a picture out of a category once it's in two. I finished doing it and all the image files were gone?! The photos still had entries! Luckily I know I can just upload all the files again, move them to the right data dir and run rebuild thumbs/mediums on them, but really, this is horrible. Empty Category should check to see if the images are still in a category and NOT DELETE THEM IF THEY ARE. You can't tell me you meant to have a whole bunch of leftover entries with everything but the photo itself. Oh yeah, and how are you supposed to remove additional categories from an image? I tried changing it to the same one it's in, but that just adds the same category as both the main cat and the alt cat. Ideally you should be able to delete any or all categories from an image, and if you delete all then it goes to a queue or in an "uncategorized" folder of some kind.