Feature request (?): Hosting locations of images

GarageSale
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I’ve been having occasional problems with FTP on my image hosting service provider for a while. Never enough to yell at them, but once every 1000 listings or so it will time out or log me out or think I’m doing some kind of DDoS. At that point GS will start failing to log in and all the listings will stop uploading correctly.

Yes I know I can use GS hosting! I do, in fact, switch between GS and my ftp now and then, usually when I have 600 listings to launch or re-list, and my FTP server is locked. Also: yes! I am in contact with the service provider and the support people are skeptical about any third party FTP software so they aren’t being helpful.

So I now (and always, until I fix FTP reliability) have some listings with images hosted on my FTP server, and some with images hosted on GS image service.

In order to move all the images in running listings from one hosting service to the other, so I can at least delete all the old extra images that have accumulated from the failures (and from size changes, and from stopped-and-relisted listings) over the years, what I’d like to be able to do is:

  1. select one or more listings
  2. be told which server the images are hosted on

Is that information stored anywhere in the database tables, by any chance? If not, could it maybe be added to the Listing <-> Image relationship so we can do maintenance? I suspect that no Listing will ever use more than one server in my case (famous last words), but I can imagine somebody with a commodity inventory and numerous associated Listings with one item. So in terms of DB design, it sounds like the server info should be associated with that `Listing <-> Image` association, not with either end node? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

This is also linked to GarageSale’s “delete old images” functionality, I assume. How does that even work, if I upload half my listings to my FTP server, then switch to GS hosting and upload the remainder? Or upload (accidentally) to both? Is there any record, or is the global setting Upload images using:… under eBay images pane in the Settings the only record of where things “are”?

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As I am sitting here watching 69000 images being deleted from my image hosting folder in Transmit.app, I realize the much simpler approach that might (might?) work for image management.

What I would suggest is: when a listing is in my GarageSale trash, and I empty the trash, the remote images associated with every listing in there should also be deleted. Unless the same exact images are being used in some active listing.

But are the “exact same images” ever re-used? I’m not sure!

It certainly appears that GS is uploading fresh images every time I launch a listing. But it is not deleting them if

  1. I change the image hosting server
  2. I change the image size
  3. A launch fails and I have to re-launch the same listing
  4. I stop a listing and start it again (not Relist)

I don’t even know for sure that GS is managing images when I do Relist something?

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I got this on 3/30. It was in response to my photo file being massively overloaded.

| | ilja
March 30 |
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We will have an alpha release of GS 10 available this week, wich will have a function to find and delete unused image in your library.

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