good deal
sounds like another unadvertised bonus of our new service
would you like to try it out on us before we go so far as to really
jettison anything
& with a little room in the photos section we might even forget
about thinning out the files
at least until it seems important enough to sacrifice anything
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Here's how to greatly lighten the load in the Photos section
without losing
> anything:
>
> When a member uploads a photo, Yahoo Groups saves three
versions of it:
> thumbnail (for the index page); screen-size (the one that
members can view); and
> full-size (the one the member uploaded). If the file uploaded is
already small
> (in the screen-size range), then only two are saved. Many of
the full-size
> files (as uploaded) are huge, running into hundreds and
thousands of KB. These
> are essentially useless, because only moderators can view
them. However,
> moderators can also delete them, without deleting the
thumbnail and screen-size
> versions that all members can view.
>
> To delete the full-size version of any photo, a moderator will
need to navigate
> to the screen-size photo on-screen, then click on the photo to
get the full-size
> version. Only moderators can do this. Once at the full-size
version, there
> will be a link to delete the full-size version. Once this is done
for each of
> the photos in the Photos section and repeated periodically on
new additions,
> there should be worlds of capacity to last a very long time.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA