Title: Original folder
Last modified: March 5, 2021

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# Original folder

 *  Resolved [piolo1985](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piolo1985/)
 * (@piolo1985)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/original-folder/)
 * Hi,
    I create a gallery by importing files directly from the upload / photogallery
   folder. Once the images are loaded, they are resized and checking via SFTP I 
   see that 3 folders are created. 1) folder with resized images 2) thumb folder,
   with thumbnails 3) “original” hidden folder with images of original size. For
   reasons of space on the server I would like to delete the original images (larger
   and heavier), then I delete the hidden “original” folder via SFTP. But when I
   do a preview of the gallery, when I click on an image the “original” folder is
   recreated and the resized image appears. In this way I have a duplicate that 
   takes up a lot of space. How can I prevent the “original” folder from being automatically
   recreated? Please help me because this plugin is very important for my site
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by [piolo1985](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piolo1985/).

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 *  [Asya Gabrilyan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asyag/)
 * (@asyag)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/original-folder/#post-14164831)
 * Dear [@piolo1985](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piolo1985/),
    I am extremely
   sorry for the belated response.
 * Every image has three sizes:
    (lightbox version(photo-gallery, photo-gallery/
   imported_from_media_libray), thumbnail(photo-gallery/thumb, photo-gallery/imported_from_media_libray/
   thumb) and original(photo-gallery/.original, imported_from_media_libray/.original)).
   The “imported_from_media_libray” is just a folder that contains the images. The
   files in .original folder are only for resetting images after “rotate”, “set 
   watermark” actions etc, so if you do not use that functionality, you can remove
   that folder.
 * Sincerely,

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