Plugin ignores -scaled files

Hi @sevlad, thank you for pointing that out, but this is actually intentional. Please check out this topic:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-scaled-media-files/

Until that’s made optional, you could try to download and install 1.1.7 version of this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-sync/advanced/

Or if you want to keep the latest version, you can overwrite which files are ignored using this hook function:

/**
 * Overwrite Media Sync plugin rules for skipping scanned files or folders.
 *
 * Should return bool value.
 *
 * @param boolean $is_ignored Default rules for this file/folder (skipping thumbnails, index.php, hidden files, etc.)
 * @param string $full_path Each scanned file/folder absolute path
 * @param string $file_name Each scanned file/folder name
 * @return boolean
 */
function my_custom_media_sync_additional_file_skip($is_ignored, $full_path, $file_name)
{
    // If it contains image size at the end (i.e. -100x100.jpg)
    $is_thumb = preg_match('/[_-]\d+x\d+(?=\.[a-z]{3,4}$)/im', $file_name) == true;

    // Default file/folder skipping rules
    $is_ignored = $file_name == ".DS_Store" || $file_name == ".htaccess" || $file_name == "index.php" || $is_thumb;

    return $is_ignored;
}
add_filter('media_sync_filter_is_scan_object_ignored', 'my_custom_media_sync_additional_file_skip', 10, 3);

You can of course modify it to ignore whatever you want.

Making that optional would be great if I just had time to do it 😅

And if you look through the topics, everyone wants to filter out different files (by file name, file type, etc.). So I’ll definitely need to make that configurable at some point. Currently, it can only be done with that hook function I mentioned.

Thanks for the feedback 🙌

Yes, I know it does not add those scaled images in Media Library. I did this intentionally because those files are auto-generated by WordPress, the same way thumbnail files are auto-generated, so these are not original files.

If I was letting those -scaled files be listed, selected, and imported, you would end up with 2 items in Media Library for 1 original file.

For example, if you upload: img.jpg in Media Library (without this plugin), you will have something like this in the directory:

img.jpg
img-38x38.jpg
img-100x100.jpg
...
img-scaled.jpg

If I then let this plugin import both of those files, you’ll end up with 2 items in the Media Library (of two origin files: img.jpg and img-scaled.jpg). And then when WordPress regenerates thumbnails and everything, you would probably have something like this:

img.jpg
img-38x38.jpg
img-100x100.jpg
...
img-scaled.jpg
img-scaled-38x38.jpg
img-scaled-100x100.jpg
...
img-scaled-scaled.jpg

Hope this makes sense 🙂

Sorry, but I don’t think I understand what you are trying to say.

I’m not even sure what was the exact issue you had. I’d need some more details to understand your situation. I don’t know if you were transferring your website to new server and lost the database or just trying to import large files to Media Library. I mean there are endless scenarios and configurations one can have.

Sorry again, but I’m completely lost now 🙂

I’m not sure if you’re trying to explain how this plugin currently works or how you think it should work. But to me, it looks like you’re expecting some totally different functionality from what this plugin is meant for. I still didn’t see an explanation of your situation (story, scenario, process, etc.).

But in any case, I understood that you found some other plugin, and it would be cool if you could share it here. So that if someone else stumbles upon this topic, they can try it out.

Thank you