[support] Manually optimizing an image folder

[Ted]

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