Clean Up Images Folder (and thumb folder)

Howdy, I've been looking and looking on how to clean up the Images folder (and thumb folder) and I'm finding older posts that do not pertain to 3.8 anymore. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to accomplish this? I have around 57,000 items I need to siphon through and get cleaned up (removed).

For thumb folder, you can just remove all the images inside. Make sure you click "Clear Cache" in nopCommerce admin dashboard after that. :)

wooncherk wrote:

AWESOME! Are thumbs just built on the fly?

Yes. :)

wow 5.21gigs free!! thanks!

wooncherk wrote:

I have my site set to save files to file system....if I empty my /thumbs folder how can nopCommerce show the images?
Can you tell me....does your method really only work when media settings are configured to save images to database?

Thanks!

embryo wrote:

If you delete them,  nop creates them on the fly. And yes. I too use file system. NOT DB  images

Okay, cool. Thanks for the reply!
But...just so I am clear...how can it "create them on the fly"???
I mean, if they aren't stored as BLOBs, how can nop "create" them? From what "source" will they be derived??
From the parent "/images" folder?

Hello,

I know this is an old post.  I'm using nopCommerce 3.90 with source.

My Media setting are set to Pictures are stored into... = Database.

After reading this forum thread, I'm still confused about what deleting all the images in the Thumbs folder does.

I deleted about 34,000 images in my Thumbs folder, but I forgot to click the "Clear Cache".

I want to do the delete again.  Will deleting all the image files and then clicking "Clear Cache", keep it from recreating all those images in the Thumbs folder?

Thanks,
Tony

No. As soon as you delete them they will start to be re created