Anyway to remove the /var/resizes folder?

Ive been searching around and a few others have talked about this directory getting fairly large.

For example I have about 1300 pictures in this test gallery3 im testing out (From G2). The main /var/albums is about 144Meg. Then the /var/resizes is about 114Meg. Then the /var/thumbs is about 50meg.

Now in my test gallery3 all the images are no larger than 800pixels on either size (length or width). I have the Advanced Setting set to 800pix.

I tried to rebuild all the pictures (using GreyDragon theme to mark all the thumbnails and pictures for resize), and that didnt change anything. If anything when you click the picture from the album page to show the picture at a larger size, its shows nothing but a tiny box. If you click inside that box, it opens the full size image just fine.

Then I thought let me delete everything inside my /var/resizes and /var/thumbs then try it again. That made it worse. Now I have no thumbs or pictures when clicked (only when i click the tiny box to make it full size). I checked the log and got nothing but errors saying the following example:

Task Rebuild Images started (task id 7)
Unable to rebuild images for 'CIMG0621.JPG'
exception 'Kohana_Exception' with message 'The specified directory, /, is not writable.' in /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/system/libraries/Image.php:388
Stack trace:
#0 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/modules/gallery/helpers/gallery_graphics.php(71): Image_Core->save('/home/dixitand/...')
#1 [internal function]: gallery_graphics_Core::resize('/home/dixitand/...', '/home/dixitand/...', Array, Object(Item_Model))
#2 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/modules/gallery/helpers/graphics.php(173): call_user_func_array('gallery_graphic...', Array)
#3 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/modules/gallery/helpers/gallery_task.php(107): graphics_Core::generate(Object(Item_Model))
#4 [internal function]: gallery_task_Core::rebuild_dirty_images(Object(Task_Model))
#5 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/modules/gallery/helpers/task.php(90): call_user_func_array('gallery_task::r...', Array)
#6 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/modules/gallery/controllers/admin_maintenance.php(194): task_Core::run('7')
#7 [internal function]: Admin_Maintenance_Controller->run('7')
#8 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/modules/gallery/controllers/admin.php(62): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#9 [internal function]: Admin_Controller->__call('maintenance', Array)
#10 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/system/core/Kohana.php(331): ReflectionMethod->invokeArgs(Object(Admin_Controller), Array)
#11 [internal function]: Kohana_Core::instance(NULL)
#12 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/system/core/Event.php(208): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#13 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/application/Bootstrap.php(67): Event_Core::run('system.execute')
#14 /home/dixitand/public_html/MandS/gallery3/index.php(102): require('/home/dixitand/...')
#15 {main}

So its complaining about not being able to write in the '/' directory. Not sure why its trying to write there. I only delete the folders inside the /var/resizes and /var/thumbs, didnt delete the /var/resizes directory itself or the /var/thumbs directory, just all the contents.

Any way to just tell it to utilize say just the full size image in /var/albums (since I already resized them to 800pix) and just the /var/thumbs for thumbs?

Any hopefully I can get some info on how to fix the cant write to / directory issue.

Dixit

I often have issues where gallery goes nuts... the way that I can tell is to look at the url bar.

I know when I see this similar issue to what you have, I'll have strange paths like http://site/master album 1/sub folder/master album 2/sub folder -> sub folder/image.jpg Obviously I want a url path like http://site/master album/sub album/image.jpg.

Run the gallery cleanup tool and see what you get.

Also, check the security permissions on the deleted folders.

Alright, so basically G3 will always create 3 copies of your image you upload, the original, the resize (which could be the same as original if you already resized it lower than whats in the Advanced settings before uploading), and the thumbnail. Right?

Thanks
Dixit

Another option would be to set the resize setting in G3 to be really small and create a new theme for your site that uses your originals instead of the resizes to be displayed.
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As a very, very quick and dirty start, edit /themes/wind/views/photo.html.php

replace:
<?= $item->resize_img(array("id" => "g-item-id-{$item->id}", "class" => "g-resize")) ?>

with:
<img src="<?=$item->file_url()?>">

That will replace loading the resize image with the full size image. However, you may still want to apply some CSS and probably remove some javascript to view the full size image when clicking on it
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I did end up figuring this out with some help from my brother (who better at HTML/CSS coding then I am).

Initially just replacing that line that nivekiam mentions, causes centering issues with the GreyDragon theme, cause he uses margins offsets based on the width of the resize_img which in my case is gone (cause I deleted it).

So what I did was create another funtion in the gallery3/modules/gallery/models/item.php. I basically copied the resize_img and modified it to point directly to the file_url

  /**
   * Return an <img> tag for the full image.
   * @param array $extra_attrs  Extra attributes to add to the img tag
   * @return string
   */
  public function full_img($extra_attrs) {
    $attrs = array_merge($extra_attrs,
            array("src" => $this->file_url(),
                  "alt" => $this->title)
            );
    // html::image forces an absolute url which we don't want
    return "<img" . html::attributes($attrs) . "/>";
  }

Then I modified two sections in the gallery3/themes/greydragon/views/photo.html.php

Change the the following line:

    <? $_resizewidth = $item->resize_width;

To the following line:

    <? $_resizewidth = $item->width;

This was done so it looks at the width of the actual image to fix the centering offset issue I was having.

Then I simply took the line (8lines below the above change) to:

           <?= $item->resize_img(array("id" => "g-photo-id-{$item->id}", "class" => "g-resize", "alt" => $_title)) ?>

To the following line:

           <?= $item->full_img(array("id" => "g-photo-id-{$item->id}", "class" => "g-resize", "alt" => $_title)) ?>

Which there I basically just changed the resize_img to full_img function I created earlier.

Im sure this can be applied to other themes in a similar manner with some tweaks.

Dixit