Where are my images stored? Not in ‘uploads’!

  • jkneif

    (@jkneif)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    Apparently, images are normally stored in the wp-content/uploads folder – but I can’t find them in there. The website that I set up, yeshar.co.uk/kneif, contains over 13,500 images in over 600 FooGallery albums. But there are only 4,000 items (including audio tracks) in the four subfolders of ‘uploads’ (for August, September, October & November), and most of them are duplicates in different sizes that seem to have been created automatically by WordPress. Most of the images that I uploaded are named, whereas most of the files in the ‘uploads’ folder only contain names such as ‘001-03-1.jpg’ (or in the case of a different-sized version of that image, e.g. ‘001-03-1-768×576.jpg’. If I look for an image such as ‘yeshar.co.uk/kneif/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/10-Birchington.jpg‘ in the corresponding folder, it is simply not there.

    At first, I was using NextGen as my gallery plugin, before discovering that the plugin was butchering my TablePress tables (see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-nextgen-weird-table-behaviour/ including replies by TablePress creator Tobias Bäthge), and it was far less easy to use than FooGallery. The images for NextGen galleries are stored in a different folder, wp-content/gallery. But I can’t see any such folder for FooGallery, and there are only 340MB of data in the uploads folder – far less than the total size of the images used on the website.

    Am I missing something? I am having a different problem with a copy of the website that I moved to kneif.info that I described here, and after noticing this inconsistency, I am wondering whether both issues might have something to do with each other. I am just completely baffled. So far nobody on here has been able to help me with my problems, but I am not giving up hope.

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  • Plugin Author bradvin

    (@bradvin)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    hi there

    FooGallery uses the images that are uploaded into the media library, and it generates thumbnails from the fullsize images whenever a gallery is rendered for the first time for a visitor.

    An example of image paths are:

    Uploaded fullsize image : /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/image.jpg
    Generated thumbnail : /wp-content/cache/2016/10/image/123456.jpg

    Thread Starter jkneif

    (@jkneif)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    I finally figured out what the problem was – file indexing for the server was set to 2,000 files, which is why FileZilla only showed me a maximum of 1,998 files per folder. But not only that – If I downloaded the complete WordPress folder to my PC, it still only downloaded the 1.998 files from both wp-content/uploads/2016/09 and wp-content/uploads/2016/10 that were visible in the FTP client (and in the cPanel File Manager)!

    I solved the problem by not downloading and re-uploading the files to a new folder at all, but by simply defining the folder for my add-on domain as the one that already had the working WordPress site in it. I also found out that it is possible to zip a folder in cPanel, so I zipped the complete WordPress folder, and I am currently downloading an 8GB zip file so that I’ve got a local backup before I use Velvet Blues to replace all my URLs. The files that I had previously downloaded with FileZilla had only totalled about 600MB, so just a fraction of the actual site … no wonder nothing was working! A lot of the photos were duplicates in smaller sizes, so in fact there were only about 400 unique photos in each folder – 800 in total, rather than the 13,500 that I had uploaded to FooGallery albums!

    I really like the plugin by the way, so thanks for that. I tried NextGen before that, but found it very counter-intuitive, and it was completely butchering TablePress tables and making them unworkable! FooGallery was far more suitable for my purposes and is a treat to use – except that I had to add 100s of links and other HTML tags in the image descriptions by hand, but I guess you can’t have everything … it is still good enough for me to have just given it a positive review and a 5-star rating! 🙂

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