[support] Image derivatives - help needed with cleanup

[Chris McGinlay]

On Monday 17 September 2007 21:54, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
> Chris McGinlay / 07.9.16 / 2:20 PM wrote:
> >Anyone any ideas how to clean up the mess of uneeded images???
>
> Since no one responded, I assume no one has the answer, which I was
> looking for as well.  I am now over 2,000 images.  I switched from
> Image_assist to CCK image_field, hoping to reduce the unwanted
> duplicates, but to no avail.  At first, CCK image_field seemed a better
> option than image_assist, then I realized upload form won't let me reuse
> existing image.
>
> --
>
> - Hiro
>
> Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
> <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>

Perhaps a PHP cleanup script will be necessary. For any image held on disk, 
the script would search the database, removing any 'unreferenced' image files 
from the disk.

Chris