[support] Manually optimizing an image folder

[Neil Coghlan]

Unfortunately, this is only applicable to presets such as thumbnails, 
etc. It doesn't alter what's in the "files" table and flushing all your 
presets (which I did) has no effect on data stored in that table.

On 30/06/2011 15:58, Larry Garfield wrote:
> The "flush" command in imagecache will wipe out the imagecache-generated
> images.  They will then be regenerated on-demand, just like the first
> time.  You can do so per-style.
>
> --Larry Garfield
>
> On 6/30/11 12:49 PM, Neil Coghlan wrote:
>> that's what I too suspected, but then found this:
>>
>> http://drupal.org/node/675616
>>
>> saying it was a bad idea to manually alter/overwrite anything in the
>> /files folder
>>
>> alternatively, is there any quick way of re-submitting images through
>> the imagecache module so that the new values get written to the DB.
>> Doing it one by one would be too painful.
>>
>>
>> On 30/06/2011 14:16, Ted wrote:
>>> On 6/30/2011 7:59 AM, Neil Coghlan wrote:
>>>> One part of my site deals with quite large images. I've used an image
>>>> optimizer and reduced all the image file sizes by about 30%.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is, if I just manually upload the whole folder, all the
>>>> values in the filesize column of the "files" table will be wrong. My
>>>> question is: does this really matter? Is there any negative side effect
>>>> of this?
>>> If you're not using quotas there shouldn't be any effect. Drupal uses
>>> the filesizes in the DB to calculate quota usage.
>>>
>>> Ted
>>>