[support] Image derivatives - help needed with cleanup

[Chris McGinlay]

On Sunday 16 September 2007 18:20, Chris McGinlay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im running Drupal 5.2 on www.rockstanza.info, with image-5.x-1.4,
> img_assist-5.x-1.4 (reckon this should be 5.x-1.4-dev etc)
>
> However my problem is not with img_assist, rather just with image itself.
>
> My images directory keeps getting larger with many duplicate copies
> appearing in the directory with no referring entry in the files table. Here
> is one example:
>
> directory listing, suppressed user:group (=apache:apache) for brevity:
>
> ls -algG dscn0044*
>
> -rw-rwxr--  1 129892 Jan 28  2007 dscn0044._original.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1  71910 Aug  9 13:18 dscn0044._original.medium.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 129892 Jul 20 04:23 dscn0044._original.preview_0.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1  71910 Jul 20 04:23 dscn0044._original.preview_0.medium.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 129892 Jul 20 05:07 dscn0044._original.preview_1.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1  71910 Jul 20 05:07 dscn0044._original.preview_1.medium.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 129892 Jul 20 07:07 dscn0044._original.preview_2.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1  71910 Jul 20 07:07 dscn0044._original.preview_2.medium.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 129892 Jul 20 12:37 dscn0044._original.preview_3.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1  71910 Jul 20 12:37 dscn0044._original.preview_3.medium.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 129892 Jul 20 15:05 dscn0044._original.preview_4.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1  71910 Jul 20 15:05 dscn0044._original.preview_4.medium.jpg
> -rw-rw-r--  1 129892 Jul 19 18:30 dscn0044._original.preview.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1  71910 Jul 19 18:30 dscn0044._original.preview.medium.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1  10165 Aug  9 13:18 dscn0044._original.thumbnail.jpg
>
> The database itself has just three entries:
> 413  	136  	_original  	images/dscn0044._original.jpg  	image/jpeg  	129892
> 7539 	136 	thumbnail 	files/images/dscn0044._original.thumbnail.jpg
> image/jpeg 	10165
> 7540 	136 	medium 	files/images/dscn0044._original.medium.jpg 	image/jpeg
> 71910
>
> i.e. no 'preview' size.
>
> My image module settings define:
> Preview 640x640
> Medium 300x300
>
> Anyone any ideas how to clean up the mess of uneeded images???
>
> Ta!
>
> Chris

I should add that there are 900+ images on the site, so manual checking is not 
really an option!