What is the 'dynamic' folder for?

  • Resolved Prostr

    (@prostr)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hello!
    I just discovered, that every time I create a gallery and upload pictures for the folder, on my FTP server, each gallery gets an folder inside, named ‘dynamic’. In this folder, there is small thumbnails of the original pictures. But I allso have the originally ‘thumbs’ folder in each gallery.

    So why, and where did that ‘dynamic’ folder come from? I know thumbs dont take that much space anyway, but I still want to drop that function, when they dosent are used for anything.
    -Maybe I did something in the setup for the gallery system, that I have to take off again? Anyone?

    Thanks

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  • tizz

    (@tizz)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    @prostr They are used for “something”, actually the “dynamic” folder provides all the different sizes of the thumbnails shown on your pages, so every new set goes in that folder.
    There you can delete only the images that you are sure that are no longer used (e.g., an early/old set of thumbnails not requested anymore).
    If you delete the content of those folders you’ll miss all the thumbnails on your pages I guess, but anyway all of them would automatically re-created at the request of the page, in the size currently set.

    Thread Starter Prostr

    (@prostr)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks. But again, I allso have the normal ‘thumbs’ folder, which contains the same set of pictures? I mean, I find it weird to have two different kind of folders, with same kind of content.

    tizz

    (@tizz)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    @prostr, the “thumbs” folder contains the thumbnails of original images (=the same quantity), they don’t change in number or size and, from what I know, they are used only in backend.

    Thread Starter Prostr

    (@prostr)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    All right.. So all in all – I just have to keep both folders and live with that.. 🙂

    Thanks!

    Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    @prostr – @tizz (Thanks!) covered this well.

    Please feel free to bring any other questions forward you may have as well.

    Thanks!

    – Cais.

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