How can I replace photos

[Guest]

I have taken over managing an oscommerce site which has some very bad digital photos. The photos can be cleaned up in photoshop so they are brighter, sharper and the grayish backgrounds made white. I assumed the photos were in the /photos directory. I downloaded 20 photos, cleaned them up and copied them back with the exact same name. However, the old photos are still being displayed. I thought it was a refresh problem, but that's not the case. I also can't find the thumnails. Are the photos stored somewere other than in the /photos directory. I am baffled.

Any help would be appreciated.

[DiMiT]

why dont you search the whole remote site for said .img names? Who knows where old webguy put them

 

I would download the whole site to my local and search from there

[Guest]

why dont you search the whole remote site for said .img names? Who knows where old webguy put them

I would download the whole site to my local and search from there

 

I will look again, but I thought I mirrored the site on my local computer. But, don't default images go into the /images directory? Are thumbnail made on the fly or are they created when the images are uploaded and stored somewhere? I am wondering if my server isn't overwriting the new images as it should be?

Thanks,

[DiMiT]

hmm I would assume it depends on what thumbnailer software you are using... I am not quite sure

 

Either way when you upload new images it would, you would think, figure it out

[MoisesZaragoza]

I have taken over managing an oscommerce site which has some very bad digital photos. The photos can be cleaned up in photoshop so they are brighter, sharper and the grayish backgrounds made white. I assumed the photos were in the /photos directory. I downloaded 20 photos, cleaned them up and copied them back with the exact same name. However, the old photos are still being displayed. I thought it was a refresh problem, but that's not the case. I also can't find the thumnails. Are the photos stored somewere other than in the /photos directory. I am baffled.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

The photos are stored in the images folder.

 

There are no thumb nails. They are automatically resized.

[ecgbyme]

I have taken over managing an oscommerce site which has some very bad digital photos. The photos can be cleaned up in photoshop so they are brighter, sharper and the grayish backgrounds made white. I assumed the photos were in the /photos directory. I downloaded 20 photos, cleaned them up and copied them back with the exact same name. However, the old photos are still being displayed. I thought it was a refresh problem, but that's not the case. I also can't find the thumnails. Are the photos stored somewere other than in the /photos directory. I am baffled.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Photos are located in Catalog/images but you have to also save them in Admin/images if you want to see them while your working on product imputs in the Admin side. B)

[Guest]

Photos are located in Catalog/images but you have to also save them in Admin/images if you want to see them while your working on product imputs in the Admin side. B)

 

I cleaned the images up and copied them back to catalog/imges. However, when I run the cart I see the same dull images. Nothing has changed. This seems weird. I have emtpied my cache, although the browser is set to refresh each time. I'll try copying them to the admin images and see what happens. But I am still baffled.

thanks,

M

[ecgbyme]

I cleaned the images up and copied them back to catalog/imges. However, when I run the cart I see the same dull images. Nothing has changed. This seems weird. I have emtpied my cache, although the browser is set to refresh each time. I'll try copying them to the admin images and see what happens. But I am still baffled.

thanks,

M

 

Have you changed their names at all? You could try and re-install the image in each product in Admin in Catalog - catagories-products B)

[Enzo_UK]

I have had this problem in the past when changing pics...

 

Somtimes you can end up with both yourpic.jpg and yourpic.JPG in the images folder.

 

I dont know if it depends on what the photos are edited with, or if its when you upload them with OSC, or another FTP program....

 

but somtimes the file extension ends up in capitals, and it seems to allow them as two different files in the same directory, rather that overwriting the old one.

[MoisesZaragoza]

well JPG, JPg, JpG, Jpg, jpg, are all diferents files mak sure you get the right one