that's what I too suspected, but then found this:
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