Automatically remove product image folder when product is deleted

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Steven Howland

• June 06, 2019 15:55

We have thousands of unused images that we ends up taking storage space to no purpose. It's painful to go through 10 of thousands of images trying to decide what is not longer use. One solution to this would be to use the product drag and drop feature which automatically creates a product image folder, then have that folder get automatically deleted when the associated product is deleted.

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  Joel

  • June 07, 2019 11:51

  That could conceivably lead to other issues, especially if there isn't a way to disable the auto-delete or have the option to either delete the related product images or leave them.

  We have set our standard procedure to delete any unique product images before deleting the product. That way, we don't have a bunch of orphaned images taking up space on the server. This isn't too hard, especially if using an FTP client like FileZilla.

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  Steven Howland

  • June 07, 2019 13:23

  It does make sense to have the auto delete set as an option. Our delete process for items is done in bulk, sometimes adding or subtracting thousands of items at a time so trying to scrub images manual, even with ftp, is not a practical process.

   

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