During the last 2½ hours, I have gone through the entire Photos
section and have deleted all full-size files. The screen-size
version of all photos can still be viewed by members as always.
This has reduced our use from 28.1 MB (94 percent of the 30 MB
capacity) to 6.2 MB (20 percent).
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Will do.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:43 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: lightering
>
>
> > 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
> >
> > --- In 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> >
> >