[support] Manually optimizing an image folder

[Larry Garfield]

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
>>