Switching to no medium-size photos
 

I would like to make a change in the way my photopost gallery operates so that I will only have a single size photo.

I have been running like this for years:

Max allowable image width=800
Max allowable image height=640
Trigger medium height & width=641
Save and display medium and large images?=yes

Q1: If I turn off "Save and display medium and large images?" what happens to existing medium size images?

Q2: Will I need to rebuild images or manually delete intermediate sizes from the database, or what?

Regards

Matt

Try setting medium to 0 and then run a rebuild medium scan.

I would have to do further testing to see the ramifications of doing something like this midstream on how it effects or the way to get rid of mediums

I would appreciate it!

Regards,

Matt

Any word on this?? I'd sure like to rid my site of the medium images.

You can have no medium is you set medium threshold to 0 but your not going to get rid of mediums already built unless you edit the sql in the photos table

Hi Chuck,

Do you mean no NEW mediums will be generated but the existing mediums and links to them will remain?

Regards,

Matt

I mean if you set medium to 0 no mediums will be created for new images correct but as always existing mediums will show

If your familar with sql you can use phpmyadmin and issue a command to set all mediums to 0 so they do not display

UPDATE photos SET medium='0' WHERE medium != '0'

In addition you would aslo have to set "Save and display medium and large images?=no" Correct?

No - that option is just for saving thumbnails and no medium or large images.

OK, thanks, I kind of thought that but wasn't sure, I like not having the extra image stored plus it gives the gallery a cleaner look.

Have the field names changed for 5.0?
 

I have just upgraded to 5.0 and would like to get rid of my medium photos. Has this SQL query changed with the new release?

UPDATE photos SET medium='0' WHERE medium != '0'

I do not see a "medium" field in the photos table. I see 3 fields: medwidth, medheight, medsize.

Second Question:
Once I run this query to change the fields for the medium images, do I then go up to the server and delete all images in all medium folders?

Thanks!!

You would need to run:

UPDATE photos SET medwidth=0,medsize=0,medheight=0 WHERE medsize > 0;

And then you could remove the files withing the medium folders, yes.

Thanks - that did it!