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JeffTucker

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Deleting unused images when changing output format
Posted: 20 Oct 22, 17:17

(Mentioned in an email - posting here so I don't lose track of it....)

If you add mydog.jpg and mycat.JPG to a project, and choose JPEG as the output format, you get slides/mydog.jpg and slides/mycat.JPG. If you switch to WebP as the output format, you end up with slides/mydog.webp, slides/mycat.webp, and slides/mycat.JPG.

In short, if the file extension isn't lower case, the unused output format isn't deleted when it should be.

MarkusD

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Re: Deleting unused images when changing output format
Posted: 20 Oct 22, 20:13

in response to: JeffTucker

I'm surprised that the core doesn't change all file extension to lower case by default. This would make things much easer, doesn't it? So for example in a tool you can assume that the file extension of every file is lower case, there is no guessing, no errors at all.

JeffTucker

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Re: Deleting unused images when changing output format
Posted: 20 Oct 22, 21:40

in response to: MarkusD

I usually rail against software that does me a "favor" ("Surely, he'll want it this way!"), but in this case I can't think of a good reason for preserving the original extension case. No skin developer should be hard-coding file names, so if the core correctly feeds me imagePath and originalPath, with the extension that it is producing, everything should be fine.

davidekholm

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Re: Deleting unused images when changing output format
Posted: 27 Oct 22, 13:06

in response to: JeffTucker

Now fixed in v29.1b3. This version also fixes the same issue with source files named mydog.jpeg (notice "jpeg" instead of "jpg")

All at: https://jalbum.net/forum/thread.jspa?messageID=358769&#358769

I will consider streamlining how file extensions are produced, but will stick to the current scheme of trying to respect the input format style for now.

JeffTucker

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Re: Deleting unused images when changing output format
Posted: 27 Oct 22, 13:38

in response to: davidekholm

davidekholm wrote:
Now fixed in v29.1b3. This version also fixes the same issue with source files named mydog.jpeg (notice "jpeg" instead of "jpg")

That's better.

I will consider streamlining how file extensions are produced, but will stick to the current scheme of trying to respect the input format style for now.

Despite my reply to MarkusD, above, I do have this nagging feeling that forcing everything to lower case, and also maybe forcing jpeg to jpg, might produce some unwelcome surprises. Can't quite put my finger on it....

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