Please help me

[blr044]

For over a week am having problems with images folder. There is a a max of 2000 files for my images directory. My host is telling me to create two folders and keep product images in one of them. If this is the case, I can move product images. Looking into includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php - I could change this section from:

 

  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

 

to this:

 

  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'store_images/images/');

 

But that would put all images likebg images, box corners and etc.

 

So if that is the correct way, are there other files that to be edited also.

 

Thanks.

[spax]

That would only make "images" a sub-directory. It wouldn't get over the 2000 limit. You could just create a new or some new directories above images and change the path-to-image, from your MySQL GUI, a backup or a downloaded CSV file.

 

Or, you could install Image Sub-Directory Support and create new directories for future products.

[blr044]

That would only make "images" a sub-directory. It wouldn't get over the 2000 limit. You could just create a new or some new directories above images and change the path-to-image, from your MySQL GUI, a backup or a downloaded CSV file.

 

Or, you could install Image Sub-Directory Support and create new directories for future products.

 

Sorry, but the image sub-directory is for future products. At present, my images directory is in the root ( catalog/images ). In that that directory is all my images plus the other folders that oscommerce put into that directory. When one considers, I have over 1700 product images. Changing configure does not work. Do not see images in mysql to change path to image. So I think I need a little help with this.

[spax]

What I meant was, if you change the configure files to what you posted:

 

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'store_images/images/');

 

you are only making the images directory a sub-directory of store_images so not solving your 2000 file limit issue.

 

If you want new directories for all new products you are going to create, the contribution I linked to will work for you. It gives you the option to create a new sub-directory in the images directory. When you do that, you declare it thus:

 

/new-directory/

 

then upload your image and the contribution creates images/new-directory, placing the uploaded image within. However, if you were to declare the new directory like this:

 

../new-directory/

 

it will create new-directory outside of the images directory, solving the limit problem.

 

There are plenty of ways to cook a spud so that isn't the only way to do it. If you want to start editing the database instead, we'll go through it.

[blr044]

Thanks for the little extra help/tip. All is fine now.

 

blr044